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Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer

posted by martyb on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:00AM   
from the On-the-edge dept.

upstart writes:

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Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer

In a blog post, Microsoft senior cybersecurity architect Chris Jackson said continuing to use Internet Explorer is racking up companies a ton of "technical debt." Essentially, by continuing to use IE, organizations are creating additional costs down the line by selecting the easiest, most convenient solution now rather than the approach that is best for the long term. Jackson laid out a scenario in which a company, choosing the easiest possible route since Internet Explorer 6, goes to make a webpage today and ends up using a 1999 implementation of web standards by default.

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• Resellers or IT Staff?(Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:10AM

  by canopic jug (3949) on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:10AM (#799019) Journal

  I was informed by our local IT department head that we can use ...

  Everyone seems to have confused IT staff with Microsoft resellers. You have the latter, probably even on the payroll. It's an all-too-common problem, and difficult if they've become embedded. But you know what you have to do [gao.gov].

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