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    Microsoft Dumping Internet Explorer

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Dec 5, 2015.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    http://www.zdnet.com/article/millio...face-patch-security-showdown/?linkId=19323240
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Dec 5, 2015
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    Edge is awful. IE11 isn't bad. But without easy add-on support it will just have to go away. I was wondering why my company just rolled out IE11 to everyone's computers. We were using IE 8 believe it or not.
     
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    The title of this thread isn't accurate, and, while the quoted article wasn't as articulate as it could have been, viewing the source material the article linked to makes it clear what is happening:

    So, IE11 on Windows 7 through 10 will continue to receive updates. Viewing the software lifecycle, it's also clear that IE11 will continue to receive updates for the supported life of Windows 7 through 10 - in other words, the updates for IE are not stopping any time soon, just for older versions of IE.

    And while yes, that may cause some consternation for companies still using IE8, 9, or 10, I can see why Microsoft would want to not have to maintain 4 versions of IE on Windows 7, and I wouldn't consider pushing companies to upgrade IE to be a bad thing. Unlike IE -> Edge, or Opera 12 -> newer Opera, there aren't any major functional downsides to moving from IE8 -> IE 11.

    IE9 will also continue to be supported on Vista and Server 2008, IE8 on Windows Embedded 2009 (essentially a slightly updated XP), and IE7 on Windows Embedded Point of Service.

    This is a bit different than the old policy of supporting all versions of IE on a given OS for the whole lifecycle of that OS. The old policy resulted in IE 5.5 being supported on Windows 2000 until 2010, and IE6 on Windows XP until 2014. I suspect Microsoft realized that both of these were rather silly. I can't imagine hardly anyone would have been running IE 5.5 instead of IE6 on Win2K in the late 2000's, so that would have just been a support expense for no benefit, and supporting IE6 for so long just gave businesses a reason to never upgrade to newer versions of IE, even as Microsoft actively campaigned against their own supported browser. The new policy simply reduces the maintenance and testing demands (making them more in line with what other browser vendors have), while reducing the chances that IE8 will become the new IE6 in large businesses.
     
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