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Gonna take a wild guess that anyone reading HN probably hasn't used IE in the last decade aside from the purpose of downloading another browser
You really have no idea what you're talking about.
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Edge is no longer a purely Microsoft product, it's now based on Chrome(Chromium) [0], or will be soon, I haven't followed this closely. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
thats not quite true. Edge BETA is the chromium based. Edge is still wholly MS
For people who have to deal with browsers for their business this is important to know what's coming in the near future.
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It sounds like you should try to upgrade to a modern employer.
That will solve his problem, but there are millions of employees out there relying on the same old stack and it isn't going to be replaced in the next few years, despite the failing support and the better alternatives. Replacing all those systems will take time and money in large quantities.
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That will solve his problem, but there are millions of employees out there relying on the same old stack and it isn't going to be replaced in the next few years, despite the failing support and the better alternatives. Replacing all those systems will take time and money in large quantities.
The problem will be solved very soon, the new Chromium based Edge has an IE mode.
edit: oh well, nothing is solved: When these web sites are viewed in Microsoft Edge (Chromium), a full instance of Internet Explorer 11 is running and rendered within the tab.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gui...
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The problem will be solved very soon, the new Chromium based Edge has an IE mode.
Interesting. I wonder how compatible the mode will be and with which version. Going to research it, thanks for pointing this out! edit: oh well, nothing is solved: When these web sites are viewed in Microsoft Edge (Chromium), a full instance of Internet Explorer 11 is running and rendered within the tab. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gui...
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Interesting. I wonder how compatible the mode will be and with which version. Going to research it, thanks for pointing this out! edit: oh well, nothing is solved: When these web sites are viewed in Microsoft Edge (Chromium), a full instance of Internet Explorer 11 is running and rendered within the tab. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gui...
How does that not solve the problem that you detailed? You said replacing all those systems will take time and money. Edge is coming to every supported platform, so if you don't want to update your applications, you don't have to. I'm not sure what else you want Microsoft to do here. They can't make you update your software, only provide a high level of backwards compatibility for those that can't justify the expense…
Anyway, running IE within Edge doesn't solve the problem of users wishing to ditch IE but can't because of compatabilty - it is still running IE process. I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but it seems to be similar to the IE tab extension for Chrome, which exist for years. It just covers instance an IE instance within a Chrome tab. It is better from user perspective comparing to running IE in separate application but from security perspective it is just the same.
Edit: It still not clear how much will actually work, and the support is actually worse than I thought. currently only IE 11 fully support SharePoint, even in the latest 2019 SharePoint version.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/browser-...
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How does that not solve the problem that you detailed? You said replacing all those systems will take time and money. Edge is coming to every supported platform, so if you don't want to update your applications, you don't have to. I'm not sure what else you want Microsoft to do here. They can't make you update your software, only provide a high level of backwards compatibility for those that can't justify the expense…
I don't know why you got the impression that I'm somehow bashing Microsoft here. I don't think Microsoft have much better approach, having decide to move on from IE and their previous generation stacks. Anyway, running IE within Edge doesn't solve the problem of users wishing to ditch IE but can't because of compatabilty - it is still running IE process. I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but it seems to be simi…