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

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: 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).