After that day we only need a really bad 0-day exploit to make everybody actually update their browser or switch to Chrome.
They still need to update IE, even if they don't use it. It's code on their hard drives....
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Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like a prime example of incredible technical incompetence of the lawmakers or incredibly good lobbying by MS. Maybe both.
It made some sense at the time the law was conceived. SSL was crippled to uselessness by US export restrictions. IE 6 had a monopoly. So they built their own much more secure encryption (using ActiveX to plug into IE) and mandated its use for everything that matters. The incompetence was in mandating a certain implementation instead of writing a technology-neutral law requiring a certain security level.
Interesting! So bad actions by the US gov led to bad results for US companies....
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are probably XP users. You can create a small notification on top of your website, notifying them that they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore...
"they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore..." You are assuming that they have a choice. A large chunk of them most likely don't.
The wording on those messages needs to be tailored for that: “Please contact your system administrator to request a secure browser”
The only way enterprise IT departments will upgrade is when they start having to take responsibility for security problems. As long as they can lie to their users and claim there's no need to upgrade, they will.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such a relief for front-end people. We'll be finally free of workarounds for IE.
Microsoft not supporting older IE doesn't mean front-end people won't have to if their sites have users who don't upgrade. It just means Microsoft can't be bothered to ship patches for those older browsers.
Everyone using a browser that doesn't get security patches is basically a walking malware farm. Not supporting them with your site and pushing them to upgrade is the moral high ground.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#145After that day we only need a really bad 0-day exploit to make everybody actually update their browser or switch to Chrome.
Let's save a step, and simply create an exploit that automatically installs Firefox/Chrome, and uninstalls IE.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#146The document makes things wildly unclear as to which versions of IE are actually supported by Microsoft. In practical terms it's still IE9 and IE11 for a while (so far as I can tell)? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I... I'm sure there is still a load of Windows Vista SP2 machines around...
Yes, Vista still exists -- but it's not much of the market, because it only existed for a short while before Win7 replaced it, and it never got much corporate adoption (where people hold onto legacy IE forever).
Unsupported XP is, in practice, probably more of an issue than Vista.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fake-grin people in the pictures are nurses and technicians from hospitals still stuck on IE6 because their late 1990s medical imaging ActiveX controls are bug-for-bug compatible with that wonderful piece of software. Behind their grins are the questions, "what now?" or maybe even "where do I want to go today." Their IT krewes are wondering, "how am I going to get the CFO to approve an upgrade to the GE medical i…
> And their info security guy Who? Oh, that guy? We let him go six years ago when we couldn't figure out what he did.
It's okay. He got back into their network and is still being paid. Got a raise last month, even.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#148Apologies for the rant, but this is the second article today that I've seen about a company discontinuing support for outdated software. (The other being a gnu rant about Windows not supporting XP.) And there was a third a couple days ago about an open source community announcing pending EOL of an old version. What bugs me is so many negative comments along the lines of "What about all those poor helpless trillion do…
> "You can't expect to stick a blu-ray disc on a record player or shove a flash drive full of MP3s into an 8-track tape deck and have the end-user experience be the same. It just doesn't work that way." Can anyone disagree with this analogy? If not, I'm going to start using it all the time!
I disagree. It totally depends on what your expected end-user experience for each of those might be.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such a relief for front-end people. We'll be finally free of workarounds for IE.
Microsoft not supporting older IE doesn't mean front-end people won't have to if their sites have users who don't upgrade. It just means Microsoft can't be bothered to ship patches for those older browsers.
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