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."

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Vista's fucked

[LichtSpektren]

MS Windows Vista is supposed to get security updates until April 2017, but they can't get IE10 or 11, and now IE9 is end-of-life. Keep that in mind when Microsoft promises to "support your device through its lifetime" or whatever bullshit.

Former Linux/Firefox user now using W10/Edge.

[Anonymous Coward]

I was a Linux and Firefox user for many years. I would help regular people install Firefox, and even Ubuntu from time to time.

I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden so many open source projects went really stupid. Firefox went from being very usable to having a junk UI in just a few releases, and it hasn't gotten any better. GNOME 3 is totally unusable. Unity is shit, too.

I finally got fed up when something called systemd started screwing up my computer with each update. I wasted far too many hours debugging various bugs and problems involving systemd. In all my years of using several different Linux distros I pretty much never had a problem with the init system. Then systemd got involved and I'd run into problems all the time!

So when my computer had some hardware problems, I opted to get a Surface tablet thing instead. I didn't have high hopes, but I have been pleasantly surprised! Windows 10 generally works very well for me. I've never had a single problem booting my Surface. It just works. I even started using Edge, and I've been very surprised by it, too. It's fast, sites work well in it, and its UI is better than Firefox's.

If you had asked me 3 years ago what OS and browser I'd be using in 2016, I would've told you Linux and Firefox. But alas here I am using Windows 10 and Edge. And you know what? I'm actually happy with them both. They've improved over time, while Linux, Firefox, and the open source desktops have gotten worse.

I want to use and I want to support open source software, but it just can't compete any longer. Things were looking so good for it. Linux was becoming a real option as a total replacement for Windows and OS X, but then so many open source projects just went totally stupid, ruining what was such a good thing.

Instead of admitting how bad things have gotten, I'm sure that some people here will just accuse me of being a "shill". Well I'm not getting paid by anybody to say that Windows 10 and Edge are now better than Linux and Firefox. I'm saying that because it's the unfortunate truth!

Oklahoma unemployment site

[l0n3s0m3phr34k]

This cracks me up, since the unemployment claims website says "This site is compatible with the Internet Explorer browser versions 5-9 only". Makes me wonder what they are running under the hood, and just how vulnerable the system is. Netcraft says IIS 6.0 on win2k3.

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

[hairyfeet]

Nope sorry, the problem isn't drivers its the developers and the fact that they KEEP BREAKING SHIT so it wouldn't matter if all the OEMs made drivers because even if Torvalds didn't trash them in the next kernel (which he would) you'd end up with the devs trashing the OS!

Just look at what has happened every.single.time. that Windows has given them a free shot by putting out a turd. Vista sucked ass? replace the barebones but functional ALSA with a fragile POS Puke Audio which to this very day is the most likely thing to break on any Linux update. Windows 8 had a shit UI? Well here comes KDE 4 and gnome Shell to replace two perfectly stable and functioning UIs with alpha quality shite that of course all the distros rushed to put as the default UI! Windows 10 is spyware? Well you can't go to Linux because you have SystemD trying to make an SVCHOSTS for Linux and breaking shit left right and sideways! Fuuuuuuucccckkkk!

I swear to God the worst enemy of Linux is NOT drivers, its NOT MSFT anything, its their own devs who can't just let shit get stable and have this insane need to just throw out what works and reinvent the damned wheel! Its like Linux from the top down is filled with these Bizzaro devs that go "Quick MSFT is sucking and Linux is running good! We will break drivers, crap all over the UI and Init, then users will have to work hard just to get back to half of what they had before! Users will feel leet, we will get lots of support jobs, we am brilliant!"...sigh.