Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer, and legacy Edge

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Microsoft has announced that support for Internet Explorer 11 will end August 17, 2021. At that time, all products under the Microsoft umbrella which may currently still use Internet Explorer, such as Outlook, OneDrive or Office 365 will stop supporting the browser.Support for Internet Explorer within the Microsoft Teams web app ends November 30 of this year. Meanwhile, the legacy edition of Microsoft Edge is set to end March 9, 2021. As recently as June 2020, updates to Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows 10 automatically install Edge and import user data from other browsers before obtaining permission to do so.
The people actually still using Internet Explorer are enterprise customers whose digital infrastructure depends on the browser. Those customers can still access pages built for IE11 using an Internet Explorer legacy mode within Microsoft Edge.
 
Hopefully, most IE users who are still using Internet Explorer can quickly switch to another web browser like Firefox which is still being supported, and has regular security and software fixes and updates.
 
It's crazy that people still use IE, to be honest. I use Chrome mainly but I may start using Edge as a secondary browser.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
just the old people who never knew better.
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I think Internet Explorer is somewhat popular in South Korea and other Asian countries because I occassionally see recent pistef pictures and videos of people using IE from internet users who live in South Korea.

I think some users in South Korea use IE to use their local websites which need to use an IE ActiveX app, Java plug-in, or IE add-on to play a video, play sound on a website, or do other tasks like work related task.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
I never thought about that.
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There's a knowledge gap between enthusiasts/hobbyists and the professional market. There's plenty of things that would make zero sense for hobbyists to use, but work perfectly fine or better in a professional environment. Like AMD vs Intel processors, or more accurately, AMD vs Xeon processors.

You'd be surprised at how many PC gaming enthusiasts we have come in and realize that their knowledge from that is basically, or completely useless where I work.
 
That's going to be hard for some folks.
I know a few people who still develop stuff using IE as their base browser.
 
I use chrome and have been using this browser for years. I never liked IE/Edge...

It seems that the majority of people I talk to have moved on from Microsoft built browsers. Can't imagine why...
 
Claraviolet said:
That's going to be hard for some folks.
I know a few people who still develop stuff using IE as their base browser.
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Hopefully, there won't be many website workers who lose their webmaster, web designer, and web devolper jobs because they dont have the technical web building skills like JavaScript, php, HTML and HTML5 to make their company's and customers' website and embedded browser programs and games work on Google Chrome, Firefox, and non-IE browsers.
 
Forgot to mention that as part of my job, we have to use IE quite a bit to test out client websites for accessibility issues. Can't wait to stop having to use it because I absolutely hate working with IE. Slow and so unresponsive sometimes.
 
It is too bad that Microsoft never fixed the slowdown and unresponsive problems, and users need a faster Windows computer to use IE without slowdown problems.
 
Grungie said:
There's a knowledge gap between enthusiasts/hobbyists and the professional market. There's plenty of things that would make zero sense for hobbyists to use, but work perfectly fine or better in a professional environment. Like AMD vs Intel processors, or more accurately, AMD vs Xeon processors.

You'd be surprised at how many PC gaming enthusiasts we have come in and realize that their knowledge from that is basically, or completely useless where I work.
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well you got to have the technical knowledge to just wrap your mind what the business has going on, specially if its still using XP :p
 
Demon_Skeith said:
well you got to have the technical knowledge to just wrap your mind what the business has going on, specially if its still using XP :p
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If only that were easy for most people. You have to essentially break down the “I’m a computer genius because I built my own gaming rig” guys for them to realize that their knowledge in an IT world is mostly useless, and believe me, there’s a LOT of those guys...

It gives them some better initial knowledge, like basic troubleshooting skills at a physical layer, and when it comes to replacing hardware components, but anything higher than that, you need to throw away your PC gaming knowledge.
 
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