This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

#1

Post by kostas_echarta » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 5:55 AM UTC

This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday
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Re: This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

#2

Post by saurik » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 6:26 AM UTC

I feel like users in China will be more likely to install a "don't nag me about upgrading" counter-patch than actually upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer.

Re: This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

#3

Post by rrss1122 » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:03 AM UTC

It will be a while still before you can actually party. As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on money of you don't support them.

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Post by TwoBit » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:08 AM UTC

I have no idea how confident I should be in Edge's security. Microsoft just doesn't have a great history there.

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:30 AM UTC

rrss1122 wrote: post #3

It will be a while still before you can actually party. As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on money of you don't support them.

True but at least now Microsoft will be bugging them (and more likely their IT departments) to upgrade.

Even the most conservative CIO will have a hard time justifying not upgrading at this point.

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Post by erik14th » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:40 AM UTC

Aren't old android browsers more of a problem nowadays?

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Post by cm2187 » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:45 AM UTC

saurik wrote: post #2

I feel like users in China will be more likely to install a "don't nag me about upgrading" counter-patch than actually upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer.

If they are stuck on XP it's not really a choice.

I work for a major European corporation and I am also stuck on XP. We don't exactly have the best in class IT dept (despite claims by a senior IT guy that we have more developpers than google and facebook together... we don't really have much to show for it).

Re: This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

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Post by starquake » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:49 AM UTC

Unfortunately this is not true:

"Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical supports and security updates."

The latest Internet Explorer version that runs on Windows Vista is Internet Explorer 9. So there will still be users using that... Windows Vista will have security updates till 2020.

Re: This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

#9

Post by noobermin » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:53 AM UTC

Does this mean jquery will lose a significant part of its utility?

Re: This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday

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Post by OSButler » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 7:57 AM UTC

Those companies that have kept running outdated IE versions will most likely still ignore upgrading. I've had a client upgrade their IE6 machines to IE8 just a few months ago. Even their own employees were frustrated with the old equipment, but there was nothing they could do until their IT dept. finally provided the upgrade for them.