Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 Reach End-of-Life Next Week (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, January 12, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 will officially reach their end of life. A new patch going live soon will add a notification that nags users to upgrade. "What's even bigger about the end of life for these versions is that this means Internet Explorer 11 is the last version of Microsoft's old browser that's left supported, as the company continues to transition customers to Edge on Windows 10."

Comments

Can we end-of-life Microsoft instead?

[Anonymous Coward]

Will a petition do the trick? The quality-of-life for everyone on the planet would improve by an order of magnitude if we could EOL Microsoft entirely and move on to a FOS OS that doesn't go through your underwear drawer at night when you're sleeping.

Re: Can we end-of-life Microsoft instead?

[phantomfive]

No. Not in this context. If Windows disappeared, then manufacturers would release drivers primarily for Linux, and applications would be written primarily for Linux.

Windows is innately no better at driver support than Linux, and in many cases is worse (jWindows is better on new hardware, which is when it matters most for purchasers of new computers).

Re: Can we end-of-life Microsoft instead?

[cfalcon]

> For-profit companies generally don't want a "FREE" OS taking hold.

Linux has already taken hold everywhere but a few small Windows holdouts, like desktops and other niche uses. And this massive grab was fueled by for-profit companies.

Re: Can we end-of-life Microsoft instead?

[phantomfive]

Wow, some anger there man. See a psychiatrist.

Translation: "End-of-life" means more control.

[Futurepower(R)]

For Microsoft, "End-of-life" means more control over users by forcing them to use new software that makes Microsoft's methods more dominant. My opinion, shared by many others.

Re:Translation: "End-of-life" means more control.

[gstoddart]

Essentially, yes .. if you haven't upgraded to our new hotness by now, we're going to abandon you and not give a crap what happens.

If you have upgraded to the new hotness, we have total control over your PC and mission accomplished.

Re:Edge?

[The-Ixian]

Why would you disable UAC?

Do you log in to your Linux boxes as root and do everything as a super user? Why would you do that on Windows?

Who really cares?

[mr_diags]

Who really cares if "support" for these fossils stop? Who has any reason to ever use a Microsoft browser when there is Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and other better solutions? Is anyone really planning to use Edge? What troglodyte is still developing any server feed that requires using a Microsoft browser?

Re:Server 2012 users screwed again

[Anonymous Coward]

No start button without installing a 3rd party app. Hot corners are a bitch to use through a windowed VNC-style interface, or through Hyper-v Machine viewer. No easy way to get a nice alphabetical list of installed programs for when I can't remember what the program was called. Try having several versions of SQL Management tools installed and picking the right one from the truncated titles displayed in Metro. Server Manager starts crashing randomly until server is rebooted (Doesn't seem to happen in R2) I also can't replicate between 2012r2 servers purchased months after the 2012 servers were installed.

At least 2012R2 should still be widely used in production for another 5-8 years, but never getting any improvements to the OS on 2012r1, even just 1 or 2 years after release is going to make those installs get worse and worse to manage over time, just like 2008r1, aka Vista Server.

I'm done beta testing windows server products in production.

Re:Edge

[tepples]

In the meantime, until Edge gains support for content-blocking plug-ins, you can keep the worst ad networks from resolving at the DNS level.

Re:Former Linux/Firefox user now using W10/Edge.

[Teun]

I don't understand where you see the advantage of Edge over Firefox, the latter offers all plus so many handy plug ins.
One reason Edge is not ready for deployment is because it doesn't run on Linux on Mac.