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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:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

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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• I'm On This.I'm On This. (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:05PM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:05PM (#799083) Homepage Journal

  wget takes a custom user agent string.

  I want you all to randomly select an IE6 user agent string - lots of versions, WfW or no WfW? - then, at your option, do either wget --resursion suckywebsite.com or wget --span-hosts bluewidgets.com.

  With host spanning, you'll want to recurse two or three links from each page, so they credit you as an interested user.

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• s=--recursion=--recursive=(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:53PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:53PM (#799100) Homepage Journal

  I Should Not Drink And Bot.

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