Internet Explorer Is No More...Almost

My childhood dreams have been fulfilled.

When you launch IE11, you see the above panel at the bottom.

Clicking LEARN MORE will take you to this site.

It talks about IE's doom.

Unfortunately, I am almost a year late to the party. In all fairness, I am yet to comment about Log4j and the new Nvidia graphics card.

Blog Post

When I went on the post, it was immediately obvious that the company cannot wait to axe IE. How do I know?

Needn't I say more?

The website mentions that a few SKUs of Windows will be unaffected. For instance, LTSC SKUs will be unaffected.

IE Mode

When the Chromium-based Edge first came out, one of its most tantalising features for businesses was IE mode. It emulated IE in a sandbox environment to allow 20-year-old SQL database host sites and Silverlight library software* could run without the need for IE to be installed.

When I made a blog post about IE's death, it was simply removed support for Office apps. Ever since that, IE users have been essentially punched directly in the face multiple times, and Microsoft were banking on the fact they would switch to Edge.

Forcing Edge on incompatible websites, End of Support Dates, disabling basically everything in IE:

Scarcity banners:

I find it ironic that I am being told to switch to Edge, except I made the switch back when the stablest build was Edge Dev. I was that excited for the new Edge.

In fact, when I went to office.com and logged in, it brought me through the whole migration process:

The whole situation is ironic.

1998 Microsoft were sued for shoving IE up people's throats, to the point of integrating it with Windows Explorer, and in 2020 onwards it's an outright war to end IE forever. It's like a grandparent assassinating your parent in favour of you. [Edge's perspective].

This is just weird.

*I know of some library that used Silverlight for its library software, but in late 2021 Capita bought the company behind the software, and updated it to HTML5. Apparently the data migrations gave the librarian a migraine. You didn't hear that from me!