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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 SomeGuy on Friday August 21 2020, @03:11AM (1 child)
This will be interesting. Thanks to Microsoft's "integration", IE is still mixed in with Windows 10 under the hood.
So what are they going to do? Keep this decaying browser at the core of the OS? Perhaps wall it off somehow? Or perhaps finally pull its evil ass of the OS kicking and screaming while destroying every application that stupidly embedded IE.
I told people not to embed that crap. Just launch the user's default browser when your software needs to go on the web. But nooooo, you had to have your own navigation UI from within your application, hard coded to your web site that disappeared a year after the software was released anyway.
If Microsoft had treated IE like the application it was, rather than some "OS component", they could have booted IE out a long time ago. When Windows 2000 came out, it was too far mixed in with the OS to pry out with the likes of 98lite. With Windows 7/8/10, they just plopped Edge on top of it and hoped people wouldn't notice it was still there.
(Score: 4, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Friday August 21 2020, @03:16AM
You can remove it on all of the current Win10 releases with Dism, Powershell, or the "Turn Windows Features on or off" GUI. We've come a long way from the "It's a core part of the OS." days.