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on Friday August 21 2020, @01:04AM
from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.
from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.
Microsoft 365 apps to end Internet Explorer support next year:
Internet Explorer's days have been numbered since Microsoft launched its Edge browser five years ago. Microsoft appears to be another step toward closer to retiring the web browser with the announcement its Microsoft 365 apps suite will end support for Internet Explorer 11 on Aug. 17, 2021, the company said Monday.
Users of Microsoft's Teams chat and collaboration service will lose IE 11 support a bit earlier, on Nov. 30, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft also said it would end support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app on March 9, 2021.
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(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday August 21 2020, @08:52PM (1 child)
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Candidly, I don't know anyone within Microsoft or in the real world that doesn't want to see the end of Internet Explorer. Unfortunately you have businesses with technology solutions they won't or can't replace. Case in point, I did some work for a beverage company that with an application that tracked maintenance and repairs on their trucks. They retired this application and replaced it with a modern html5 app. They have a legal mandate to keep that old application running that requires IE running for, no shit, ten years. It's an exceptionally tough sell to ask them to spend money to fix that app.
If we dropped support for IE entirely it wouldn't get rid of IE. Instead you'd have millions of pre-drop machines sitting out there, unpatched, to access apps like that. What I like about IE mode is we can get the majority of people doing the majority of browsing in a modern browser. Getting IE in a sandbox for the majority of users is a huge step forward. I think that was the motivation.
... I can't offer any defense for the bazillions of IE-only government websites. That's just shameful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @10:17PM
It is not better. Maybe then patch the broken os and keep them too up to date. M$ will feel the pain that they created. They create a monopoly and heavy lock-in. They should be paying for the repairs for breaks they have left behind.