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[winjer]

Microsoft is issuing an update to permanently kill Internet Explorer 11 tomorrow

Tomorrow, February 14, is Valentine's Day and this is the day Microsoft has chosen to finally break up with Internet Explorer 11.

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February 14, is Valentine's Day and this is the day Microsoft has chosen to finally break up with Internet Explorer 11.

As we reported towards the end of last year, Microsoft is releasing a software update that will permanently disable Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10. Rather than being an update for Windows itself, Microsoft is instead pushing out an irreversible update to Microsoft Edge.

Organizations that have already transitioned from IE11 to Microsoft Edge with IE mode will not be impacted when the IE11 desktop application is scheduled to be permanently disabled on February 14, 2023. Note: If you would like to remove the IE visual references such as on the taskbar or Start Menu, you will need to use the Disable IE policy before February 14, 2023. If your organization still has dependencies on IE11, you must take steps now to complete your transition before February 14, 2023, or risk business disruption at scale when users lose access to IE11-dependent applications.

IE11 visual references, such as the IE11 icons on the Start Menu and taskbar, will be removed by the June 2023 Windows monthly security update release ('B' release) scheduled for June 13, 2023. They will also be removed by the non-security preview release on certain Windows 10 versions scheduled for May 23, 2023.

Good riddance, to bad rubbish. Finally we are free from Internet Explorer.

 

[kanjobazooie]

 

[AV]

Press S to spit.

 

[Kenpachii]

Men i can't remember ever using that shit once firefox and chrome came out.

 

[Fake]

 

[Fahdis]

Posting from IE11 - 1 minute after the thread was made. Hope I am the first post.

 

[RoboFu]

As a long time web developer .. good fucking bye !!!!

 

[Kagrenac]

The same goes for Safari, hopefully.

 

[nowhat]

As a long time web developer .. good fucking bye !!!!

This, sooooo much this! As Fwiffo from Star Control 2 would put it: happy days and jubilation!

 

[kittoo]

Men i can't remember ever using that shit once firefox and chrome came out.

Well...we all did use IE to download Firefox or Chrome.

 

[Bojanglez]

No IE death will be celebrated as much as IE6

 

[Saber]

Good riddance to a nobody.

 

[nowhat]

Well...we all did use IE to download Firefox or Chrome.

Nah, "pacman -S firefox" for me.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Now kill Chrome.

 

[jm89]

Good. I lost hair developing websites for this piece of shit and it's predecessors.

 

[Drew1440]

Didn't they kill it last year? Seems every year they announce the death of Internet Explorer.

The end of the legend, it came a long way since its origins in Windows 95 OSR2. Edge is now the replacement, but I wish they stuck with the EdgeHTML engine instead of dumping it for Blink/Chrome.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Someone needs to buy the netscape name and revive that.

 

[winjer]

Someone needs to buy the netscape name and revive that.

We already have that, but without the name. It's Firefox.

 

[murmulis]

It sucks that there's almost no competition now.
Chrome totally dominates.
FF has a tiny market share and some devs don't even care to check if their code works on FF.
Safari has become the new IE6. It has lots of compatibility problems and webdevs hate it - but dropping support for iPhones is not an option.

 

[GreatnessRD]

Goodnight, sweet prince. Long time coming, lmao.

 

[Elitro]

As a long time web developer .. good fucking bye !!!!

Amen, brother!

 

[Kadve]

How is Edge nowadays btw? Haven't used it since it became i Chrome clone.

 

[SoloKingRobert]

Good riddance to a nobody.

 

[Skifi28]

Well, we're fucked at work. Plenty of stuff we use is ancient and breaks on any other browser. It's going to be a fun week.

 

[FBeeEye]

It will be back when some government agency using antiquated systems cries to mommy.

 

[nowhat]

FF has a tiny market share and some devs don't even care to check if their code works on FF.

I'm a web dev who uses FF as his main browser (both for development and general use) and honestly, I can't recall a site that wouldn't work properly in FF. Apart from some sites borking for running uBlock Origin, but that's not a fault of the browser. In rare use cases FF is more strict with standards, deprecating some features that should have been taken to a farm upstate years ago, but then we're talking about features that one shouldn't use anyway (like "javascript:" anchor tags).

Safari has become the new IE6. It has lots of compatibility problems and webdevs hate it - but dropping support for iPhones is not an option.

This sadly is true, although not as bad as it was with IE6. But yes, currently most of my compatibility woes are because of Mobile Safari.

 

[GymWolf]

So can i just erase it from my pc with that cortana bitch?

 

[Iced Arcade]

I actually though EI was dead and buried already.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Windows explore was never viable it’s very old and chrome, safari are more popular windows explorer is dying and Bing is next.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Windows explore was never viable it’s very old and chrome, safari are more popular windows explorer is dying and Bing is next.

Or it was replaced by Microsoft Edge. Lol

 

[Z O N E]

Now kill Chrome.

Honestly, I'm still upset that the original Microsoft Edge was replaced by the Chrome variant Microsoft Edge. I wish MS either kept the HTML version or went towards Firefox instead of Chrome.

 

[ReBurn]

I wonder if Edge still has an IE 11 mode? If so then what is dead may never die.

 

[hybrid_birth]

Aka Internet Exterminated

 

[BlackTron]

Someone needs to buy the netscape name and revive that.

Now that's nostalgia. That grainy compass. Just seeing the name takes me back to MS Entertainment Pack and Chip's Challenge.

 

[AJUMP23]

 

[64bitmodels]

Windows explore was never viable it’s very old and chrome, safari are more popular windows explorer is dying and Bing is next.

you kind of need windows explorer in order to see the files on your system... unless you mean internet explorer
also with that new AI thing Bing isn't gonna be dying anytime soon... if anything it might get its first big break in a while

 

[winjer]

you kind of need windows explorer in order to see the files on your system... unless you mean internet explorer
also with that new AI thing Bing isn't gonna be dying anytime soon... if anything it might get its first big break in a while

Exactly.
Bing+ChatGPT might be the biggest threat to Google Search in decades.

 

[TheMan]

Can’t remember the last time I opened IE even though it used to be my main browser once upon a time.

 

[nowhat]

also with that new AI thing Bing isn't gonna be dying anytime soon... if anything it might get its first big break in a while

Having played around with ChatGPT for quite a bit, I'm not so certain. Sure, it can be very impressive, but at the same time, it can create completely false (yet reasonably believable) output. Once you know what buttons to press, the cracks in the seams become very much visible.

But the larger problem is, the language model ("AI" as it were, the quotes are there on purpose) must be trained for a particular dataset, and very much likely fine tuned by hand afterwards. Which is why ChatGPT is unable to know anything about current events - some two years (before now) of information missing is a huge gap in today's information society. So I don't see such language models replacing traditional search engines any time soon, at least with all queries.

(I've been told that Bing is far superior compared to Google when searching for porn, but I don't think porn is particularly hard to come by online)

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

Someone needs to buy the netscape name and revive that.

Verizon owned it, and then sold it to someone else, I think a chinese company

 

[Ovek]

It’s not fully dead IE still lives on as the “Trident Engine” driving the backend of all of the Microsoft management console snap in modules and server apps like the group policy editor.

One day they might migrate it to Edge web2 but it’s Microsoft so it might happen by Windows 15 and if it does it will be broken for well over a year with no explanation.