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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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.