Microsoft bids farewell to Internet Explorer on Thursday, stirring a sense of panic among many businesses and government agencies in Japan that waited to update their websites until the last minute.
Since April, Tokyo-based software developer Computer Engineering & Consulting has been inundated with requests for help.
[...] "They have known [about the phaseout] for a long time, but they must have postponed taking actions," said a CEC official, who expects the chaos among the procrastinated customers to last for "a few months."
[...] They said the browser was used for employee attendance management, expenses settlement and other internal tools. In some cases, they have no choice but to use Internet Explorer because of clients' systems used to handle orders. Over 20% of these respondents did not know or had not figured out how to transition to other browsers after Internet Explorer's retirement.
Government agencies are particularly slow to respond. The portal site for information on government procurement and bidding will switch its recommended browsers to Microsoft's new Edge and Google Chrome on Thursday. But for Japan Pension Service, notices concerning online applications must be viewed in Edge's Internet Explorer mode. The website of a government-backed mutual aid corporation for private schools still listed Internet Explorer as its only recommended browser.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Tuesday June 21 2022, @09:47PM (6 children)
As TFA explained this was a long time coming. The folks involved stuck their heads in the sand and hoped for the best.
As usually happens in these situations, they got fucked in the ass.
Condoms optional.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday June 22 2022, @12:51AM
Only management could do something this clever.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Touché) by coolgopher on Wednesday June 22 2022, @01:36AM (3 children)
It is good to see that people finally get the pay-off (or is that payback?) from choosing to tie themselves to vendor proprietary things rather than open standards. It is well deserved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 23 2022, @03:04PM (2 children)
I wonder if this "IE" feature still works if IE is gone:
https://help.sectigostore.com/support/solutions/articles/22000272681-code-signing-certificate-generation-using-microsoft-edge-with-internet-explorer-mode [sectigostore.com]
If I remember correctly Firefox stopped supporting this so if you want to generate a code signing certificate with Firefox you need to use an old unsupported version of Firefox...
https://www.thesslstore.com/knowledgebase/code-signing-cert-csr-generate/web-browser/ [thesslstore.com]
See also: https://support.comodo.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/244/7/which-browser-can-i-use-to-signup-for-a-code-signing-certificate [comodo.com]
https://codesigningstore.com/steps-to-get-code-signing-certificates [codesigningstore.com]
So what are the open standards for this? ;)
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday June 23 2022, @10:22PM (1 child)
"Don't generate certificates inside a web browser"?
Sure, it may be convenient, but if you're trying to do something securely, convenience should be a red flag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 24 2022, @03:39PM
So I don't buy code signing certs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 23 2022, @03:16PM
But most of their stuff still works in Edge in IE mode right? Has got to take a high level of FUBARness to have it not work even in that mode. I mean MS even claims it supports ActiveX: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode [microsoft.com]