Over the last year, you may have noticed our movement away from Internet Explorer (“IE”) support, such as an announcement of the end of IE support by Microsoft 365 online services. Today, we are at the next stage of that journey: we are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge. Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications. Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode (“IE mode”) built in, so you can access those legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications straight from Microsoft Edge. With Microsoft Edge capable of assuming this responsibility and more, the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.
It’s going to a nice farm upstate.
Finally, we can kill off the legacy stuff and concentrate on the new, …………. not!
I like Edge, but I’m not confident the legacy compatibility issues between IE and Edge will ever be resolved, let alone by 2022.
I’m needing IE less and less, but there is a lot of legacy software used in organisations that make calls to IE, and it won’t be cheap, easy or fast to update/upgrade.
Im assuming that a lot of IE is still going to exist in Windows 10 in the subsystems, as being anticompetitive in the early 2000’s is really turning around to bite them, with the full integration of IE into Windows.
Things like file explorer and other elements. Just the other day i had to adjust the IE security zones in Windows Server 2019 as it affects SSL VPN connections and prevents them from working.
While I’m glad IE is gone folks seem to be forgetting the mistakes of the past and ignoring the fact they are being repeated…what was the main issue with IE? That everyone was ignoring the standards and instead coding their websites to IE…well guess what is happening with Chrome folks? You look at how many browsers are just re-skinned Chrome today and it reminds me of the early 00s and how many browsers we had that were just a skin on the IE Trident engine, it wasn’t good then and its not good now.
I personally hope real competition comes back to the browser market as having 1 company dictate how the web should work thanks to a monoculture? Wasn’t good when it was MSFT at the controls and frankly not any better with Google, in fact I would say even worse as say what you will about early 00s MSFT but they didn’t give a crap about hoovering up all your data all they wanted was more people buying Windows, with Google YOU are the product.
IE is still a system level component in Server 2019, so they’re going to have to support it fully (as a piece of software, not necessarily on all sites) till 2024 and provide extended support till 2029, so they’re a long way from totally getting rid of it yet.
A nice farm upstate?
Ye gods I hope not. IE deserves a terrible farm that will promptly shoot it behind the shed.