Thursday, May 20th 2021
Microsoft to Kill Internet Explorer 11 Once and for All in 2022
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has been one of the biggest browsers in the world by market share. However, that was some years ago and the browser technology keeps developing to a point where a 3-month non-updated browser is slow and insecure. The latest version of Internet Explorer is version 11, which you can find still running on your Windows PC. You might wonder why is it still present when Microsoft announced its Chromium-based Edge browser some time ago. Well, many applications have built-int code that needs Internet Explorer to work. If there is no IE browser, the application would display errors and likely not run well.
However, Microsoft today announced that the company will be moving on from IE 11 and that it is finally killing it by June 15th, 2022. The IE browser represents a code that is probably hard to maintain and a potential security hole. That is why the company is deciding to end it in 2022. If you are wondering how the company plans to migrate a plethora of apps from needing IE, Microsoft is preparing Internet Explorer compatibility mode on its Edge browser. That way it ensures that all of the existing applications would run under the Edge browser and that old and insecure piece of code is removed from Windows.
Sources:
Microsoft Blog, Microsoft IE 11 FAQ, via Tom's Hardware
However, Microsoft today announced that the company will be moving on from IE 11 and that it is finally killing it by June 15th, 2022. The IE browser represents a code that is probably hard to maintain and a potential security hole. That is why the company is deciding to end it in 2022. If you are wondering how the company plans to migrate a plethora of apps from needing IE, Microsoft is preparing Internet Explorer compatibility mode on its Edge browser. That way it ensures that all of the existing applications would run under the Edge browser and that old and insecure piece of code is removed from Windows.
41 Comments on Microsoft to Kill Internet Explorer 11 Once and for All in 2022
But also, why is this taking so damn long? Like Flash which was announced as being killed off and then took almost five harmful years to die.
IE's successor, Edge, has already been replaced and itself, died off. Why has Microsoft even been shipping IE at all in the last 3 years? It will persist as long as they keep feeding the idiots that are too lazy to move off it. Let's face it, if you have business software from the last decade that was explicitly coded for IE, you deserve to have the rug pulled out from under you at this point; It's a cruel kindness.
IE is 100% superflous shit at this point. If you still have it lingering in your W10 install like an unflushable turd, get rid of it with @ExcuseMeWtf's link. IE has been the holy trifecta of a security vulnerability, useless, and bloatware going back as far as Windows 8's launch.
When i moved to Windows 10 i started using Chrome, which i used until 2019, since then i use Edge Chromium.
Also on a side note all the security problems we have today is because of MS and there stupidness. When they decided to intergrate IE into the OS was there major security downfall for the last 21 years. The old days of MS like windows 95a and 95b IE was a seperate component of the OS. When 95c came out then the massive security problems came with it. If MS had kept the Internet component seperate from the core OS then we might have not had all the malware, ransonware, and other security flaws we have today. Unix and Macs are like this seperated components not part of the core OS. MS never learns.
The solution isn't to code for Edge (classic or Chromium) but to code in HTML5 that is a global, cross-platform standard that will be supported by ALL browsers going forward for the forseeable future, and likely be fully backward-compatible if and when HTML6 suceeds it.
If I'm not using IE I was told I have to print out shipping paperwork, hand write out all info needed and then to try and fax it - yes, that was an emphasis on "try" because I'm told they have a lot of issues with incoming faxes not actually coming through.
I wonder if Edge's built in IE compatibility will allow proper functionality for them....?
To put this in perspective, the main reason W8 Enterprise failed wasn't anything to do with ugly GUIs/etc like with the Home/Pro editions, it was because you couldn't install Internet Explorer 9.0 on it, you were limited to IE10 or above and at that point in time Internet Explorer 9.0 was still the defacto standard browser for enterprises. The biggest driving force behind W10's success in enterprise has been browser based apps releasing IE11 compatible versions allowing organisations to move to W10.
I might be cynical, but I can't shake the feeling Microsoft is doing the "pay us A LOT of money for extended support or your stuff will stop working" again. For consumers it's "meh", but I'm sure there are corporate admins who swear a lot more than usual right now.