It's pretty interesting to see Microsoft edging out onto this limb of abandoning their long held policy of supporting their software for long periods of time. There is pretty much no alternative, so on the one hand it is not like their enterprise customers have anywhere else to go. On the other hand, it's one less argument for companies to stick with Microsoft if they are already on the edge. I'll be interested to see how it turns out if they keep pushing in this direction.
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
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Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#22Of course this doesn't change anything for the 70% of our users who are still on XP and Vista. At best we get IE9, at worst IE8
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#23So does this mean I no longer have to test my website with Windows IE (6!) 7-10 at all ever, under any circumstances? And be able to tell clients that IE11 onwards is all that has to work in IE-land?
You can tell your clients you only support whatever you want, and they can tell you they won't be a client of yours anymore unless you support what they want.
It depends on what type of client / relationship we are talking about. It might go like this:
Theodores: I only want to support IE11+
Client: No. What if our users have older browsers?
* later *
Theodores: I only want to support IE11+
Client: No. What if our users have older browsers?
Theodores: That should be exceedingly rare, Microsoft have actually pulled support for those versions recently. See this link.
Client: Oh, ok then, great. IE11+ it is.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#24Are there any guesses when the support for IE 11 ends? Or when will Microsoft remove IE from Windows? Never?
With plugin support being dropped from browsers "never" is likely. You're always going to need that one browser that supports the "old web."
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#25Thank goodness. IE 11 has enough warts and weirdness; having to deal with all the brokenness in IE 8 was driving my front-end colleagues to alcoholism... I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
> I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome... I understand the sentiment, but to be clear: Ideally we do not want any one vendor with a majority browser share. Otherwise someone will get complacent and we'll have a repeat of the dark times (IE6). Having multiple browser vendors is good for the web.
Yeah... but I kinda wouldn't mind if they were all using the same open source rendering engine under the hood.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#26This is good news for those who aren't using older versions of Windows (older than Windows 7). For everyone else (which is still a lot of people), this is very bad news.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't seem to have much market share: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr... IE8 still has over 10%
Acording to this other source it's only 2%. These estimates are so different it's hard to trust on any of it. http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-browser_version_partially... Browser trend will probably be more influenced by region and public. If your public is stay home dads in China you should definitvely be looking into iE8, if your public is tech workers in the Bay Area you shouldn't even care about iE11.
It's definitely a question of context. You have a large number of companies who either take a very long time to update to newer versions of Windows, or who developed a number of internal applications which will not work with newer IEs.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#28We still have customers with IE6. Risk adverse institutions like airports really don't want to upgrade things.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#29Wow, I'm all for EOL'ing old versions of IE, but I'm surprised at the complete lack of notice (on a corporate scale). Was this known to be in the works for a while?
My thinking is just that most larger companies will have zero chance of hitting a January deadline, and once the deadline passes, there's really no urgency to upgrade by any particular time. I would think a ~12 month deadline might be more effective in getting people to upgrade (as well as resulting in fewer compromised browsers).
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome... I understand the sentiment, but to be clear: Ideally we do not want any one vendor with a majority browser share. Otherwise someone will get complacent and we'll have a repeat of the dark times (IE6). Having multiple browser vendors is good for the web.
Yeah... but I kinda wouldn't mind if they were all using the same open source rendering engine under the hood.
Which one? Because we have a supplier's site that doesn't seem to work in post-Blink Chrome.