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

Posted by Soulskill on from the fond-memories-of-using-it-to-download-firefox dept.

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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  1. Re:Can we end-of-life Microsoft instead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not as long as using Linux means fixing weird glitches all day long. Here's a disastrous Ubuntu 14.04 experience of one guy.

    Try sometimes installing a Linux distro and writing down all the little glitches and other unexpected behavior that you meet. You'd be surprised how long list you end up with.

    Privacy is the only benefit that you get with running Linux on the desktop. All other areas (for example performance, stability, security and quality assurance) are garbage when compared to Windows.

  2. Re:Can we end-of-life Microsoft instead? by arth1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Privacy is the only benefit that you get with running Linux on the desktop. All other areas (for example performance, stability, security and quality assurance) are garbage when compared to Windows.

    Linux stability is garbage, you said?

    # uptime
      13:06:17 up 1263 days, 1:01, 4 users, load average: 0.48, 0.40, 0.29