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Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by night-rider »

timeimp wrote: post #5

Does anyone work in an “enterprise” environment who have been dreading this day? Any apps / mainframes / industrials systems that needs IE to run?

If there are legacy systems that would be too expensive to tear down and modernise, then some form of regulatory fine should be implemented to stop this. There is no excuse for running IE anywhere these days, especially now after this news which puts the final nail in the coffin.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by gertlex »

timeimp wrote: post #5

Does anyone work in an “enterprise” environment who have been dreading this day? Any apps / mainframes / industrials systems that needs IE to run?

HP Alm seemed to require IE where I work in the past 6 months. I told the person asking me to use HP Alm that I had no way of installing IE, with insinuations that the ask was BS.

Probably outdated version or not a hard requirement...

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Post by izzydata »

timeimp wrote: post #5

Does anyone work in an “enterprise” environment who have been dreading this day? Any apps / mainframes / industrials systems that needs IE to run?

At my office we use this software called Application Lifecycle Management that still requires Internet Explorer. Apparently they made some kind of containerized IE launcher for it. I suppose that was easier than porting it to a modern browser.

Re: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

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Post by calvinmorrison »

DrBazza wrote: post #7

Having lived through the MS/IE6 era of being the monopoly web browser, and effectively determined and held back web standards for a long time, it's bittersweet that we now have Google/Chrome era. At least it's not hard wired into the OS and we're not going through another era of mega-corp hard wiring browsers into their OSes any more. Oh wait.

Say what you will (I am a sole firefox user for a decade +), at least chrome keeps improving and having development. Now that the web is more of a "VM in a window for applications", it's _not_ like the IE era of no updates, buggy crap, un-debuggable, etc.
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