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Microsoft Warns Internet Explorer 10 Will Be Terminated In January 2020 (theregister.co.uk)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Microsoft has warned that it isn't only Windows 7 for the chop in 2020. Unloved Internet Explorer 10 will be joining it. Finally. Internet Explorer 10 first appeared back in 2012 and in 2016 Microsoft made a concerted effort to kill the thing by focusing its support efforts on Internet Explorer 11. Anything not Edge-related or without "11" after it would no longer be supported. However, not every operating system was capable of actually running Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft infamously restricted its Edge browser to Windows 10 (and later iOS and Android). Notable exceptions to the IE10 crackdown were Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Embedded.

At this point administrators will doubtless be shuddering at the memory of having to run Internet Explorer in their pristine Server environment in order to get access to some recalcitrant function or component. Alas, the shuddering must resume since after a two-year stay of execution, Microsoft has decided that IE10 must be stamped out completely. Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Server 2012 will remain supported until 2023 after all, and keeping IE10 patched for another four years is doubtless keeping the engineers awake at night. Microsoft has therefore warned that as well killing off Windows 7 in 2020, enterprises that prefer to take a slower path will have to update IE on their 2012 Servers, since IE10 support will finally end for everything in January 2020. Unlike Windows 7, you won't even be able to pay for patches.

86 comments

  1. Can it still download Chrome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    NT

    1. Re:Can it still download Chrome? by dryriver · · Score: 2

      No. It has been TERMINATED along with every other browser that ever existed. Executive order from Redmond. You will be browsing the web from the Command Line from now on. Until Microsoft TERMINATES the Internet too, of course.

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    2. Re:Can it still download Chrome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Until Microsoft TERMINATES the Internet too, of course.

      I believe the preferred nomenclature in Redmond is EXTINGUISH.

    3. Re:Can it still download Chrome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Too bad we can't TERMINATE! M$ and the WindBLOWS 10 spy/virus as well!!!!!

    4. Re:Can it still download Chrome? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Odd. I managed to do that just fine. fdisk and parted are your friends here.

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    5. Re:Can it still download Chrome? by gwjgwj · · Score: 1

      Until Microsoft TERMINATES the Internet too, of course.

      I remember having to terminate my internet. 10BASE2. Now get off my lawn!

    6. Re:Can it still download Chrome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All your termination caps belong US!!

  2. Noooo... by dryriver · · Score: 3, Funny

    (Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!

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    Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
    1. Re:Noooo... by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 3, Funny

      (Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!

      IE6 has been gone for a long time. Time to move on...

    2. Re:Noooo... by dryriver · · Score: 1

      But IE6 ran so well on my Commodore 128. I even managed to get it to load a GIF with FLOYD-STEINBERG DITHERING once.

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      Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
    3. Re:Noooo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't mix something as nice as a Commodore computer with something as shitty as Internet Explorer. Microsoft's BASIC back then was a much better product.

    4. Re:Noooo... by dryriver · · Score: 1

      **** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ***** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE. READY.

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    5. Re:Noooo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh don't worry, Edge is there to take IE's place in the browser pantheon. It is every bit the browser that IE is, and then some.

    6. Re:Noooo... by dryriver · · Score: 1

      Edge is too edgy for an old fart like me. I think Firefox strikes the right balance between being boring and being boring.

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    7. Re: Noooo... by Peptidoglycan · · Score: 1

      If by edgy you mean only marginally acceptable for reading pdfs and otherwise completely nonfunctional anywhere but MSN

    8. Re:Noooo... by ArhcAngel · · Score: 1

      I call your Basic and raise you C64 Assembler

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    9. Re:Noooo... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1

      (Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!

      IE6 has been gone for a long time. Time to move on...

      Oh?

    10. Re:Noooo... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Where is Sarah Connor when you need her? And why is Skynet sending killer robots back to take out a web browser???

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  3. Sarah Connor by babanada · · Score: 1

    She rejoices

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    1. Re:Sarah Connor by dryriver · · Score: 1

      Boomark me if you wantz to live... (On a side note, how come Skynet didn't update and reboot itself randomly, given that it was almost certainly built by Micro... erm... Cyberdyne?)

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  4. Don't waste your time reading the summary or TFA by avandesande · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mainstream support for IE 10 ended in 2016 except for on Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows 2012 server. Support will end for these two OS in January 2020.

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  5. Make sure to cut off it's head by bobstreo · · Score: 1

    you know, just to make sure it's not going to get back up and mess with you, just when you thought it was dead but it really wasn't.

    RIP(es) you red-headed stepchild of a browser that nobody will ever miss.

    1. Re:Make sure to cut off it's head by dryriver · · Score: 2

      What you wrote is deeply offensive to completely computer illiterate people who liked using the greatest clusterfuck of a web browser ever made. You should be more Politically Correct the next time. You should also buy and use some Apple gear, so you can better understand and empathize with the cognitive impairments completely computer illiterate people have to live with every day. The more people understand each other, the nicer a world we will all inhabit. =) Can I get my Nobel Prize from CNN now?

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    2. Re:Make sure to cut off it's head by bobstreo · · Score: 1

      What you wrote is deeply offensive to completely computer illiterate people who liked using the greatest clusterfuck of a web browser ever made. You should be more Politically Correct the next time. You should also buy and use some Apple gear, so you can better understand and empathize with the cognitive impairments completely computer illiterate people have to live with every day. The more people understand each other, the nicer a world we will all inhabit. =) Can I get my Nobel Prize from CNN now?

      I use FireFox to show my support for the downtrodden of society.

      I have a cultural sensitivity that doesn't allow me to purchase Apple products.

      I did have a hand soldered Apple II+ clone I built and a IIcx running AU/X work let me use at home but I've never actually purchased an Apple product in my life.

    3. Re:Make sure to cut off it's head by dryriver · · Score: 1

      FireFox is a CAPITALIST browser that ELITES use to browse the web. It is even used on Wall Street. I am deeply offended by your insensitivity in praising alternative browsers like FireFox. As for your unwillingness to buy Apple products, you are greatly damaging the oil-rich Arab investors who really own Apple. That too is offensive. (Now I get a Nobel Prize from CNN, and an Academy Award from the European Union!)

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      Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
    4. Re:Make sure to cut off it's head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You need to learn the difference between "it's" and "its", you ignorant uneducated semiliterate sack of shit.

    5. Re:Make sure to cut off it's head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you know, just to make sure it's not going to get back up and mess with you, just when you thought it was dead but it really wasn't.

      RIP(es) you red-headed stepchild of a browser that nobody will ever miss.

      **sniff** **sniff** You had me at, "you know . . ."

      Oh, wait . . . you said, "browser". I thought you we're talking about Trump.

      (Hey, we can all dream, can't we?)

  6. Those goddam sorry ass ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... yellow belly motherfuckin' sumbitchin' blue-balled bastards.

    Wait. IE went all the way to 10?

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    1. Re:Those goddam sorry ass ... by dryriver · · Score: 2

      That depends on how you MEASURE it, you see?. Completely Scientific Example: Microsoft Windows 10 is actually Windows NT 6.0. But it is also Windows 10, kind of like wave-particle duality in optics. Thus Internet Explorer 10 must be IE NT 6.0. So it kind of went to 6 only, but at the same time went to 10 as well. Kind of like wave-particale duality in optics. Now the question is, what would happen if either IE or Windows had gone up to ELEVEN? Nothing good obviously, so Microsoft TERMINATES products that TRY to go above 10. (What did I just write?)

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    2. Re:Those goddam sorry ass ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Schrödinger's cat.

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    3. Re: Those goddam sorry ass ... by subie · · Score: 1

      Actually Windows 10 should be Windows 9 but MS skipped that because of Windows 9x.

    4. Re:Those goddam sorry ass ... by Merk42 · · Score: 1

      It went all the way to 11, and no, I'm not just making a Spinal Tap joke.

    5. Re:Those goddam sorry ass ... by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 0

      CaptainDork, please take back these creimertards?! They have been following me around ever since I commented on one of your story submission months ago because they think I'm creimer. They need a proper beating. ;)

    6. Re:Those goddam sorry ass ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      We here at CD Acronyms United want you to know that we are proud to host the creimertards on a rotating basis. The diluent you bring to the CDAU movement to mask the whereabouts of the magnanimous criemer, work to provide confusion among the small group of haters and stalkers.

      This, too shall pass. :)

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    7. Re:Those goddam sorry ass ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Like a Kidney Stone?

  7. They really have a learning problem at MS by Crashmarik · · Score: 0

    Either that or they just don't want a share of the browser market.

    After what happened with IE 6 when they had entire corporate systems tied to the browser they decided needed to go away, you would think they would shy away from creating a never again attitude in users.

  8. VB6 fiasco repeat? by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    Many orgs inadvertently/incompetently hard-wired their applications to IE10 and it may not be easy to convert. In some cases it's Active-X or Silverlight dependency. They will be ticked.

    1. Re:VB6 fiasco repeat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They will be ticked.

      They knew what they signed up for.

      Consultant: "Hi, I'l write your application. But it will suddenly die some day, and there won't be anything you can legally do about it. Until that day, your maintainers will be pissed. But after that day, they won't. Instead, your users will be pissed. And your boss will be pissed. The owners will be pissed."

      Customer: "Okay!"

    2. Re:VB6 fiasco repeat? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 1

      Nobody tied themselves to IE10 (that doesn't even make sense). IE11 is still around, and it isn't going anywhere due to the ubiquitous ShDocVw component. And VB6 is still supported and probably will in backward compatibility perpetuity because all it requires is the runtime and a handful of legacy libraries that will ship with Windows regardless

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  9. Terminated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Some say "Good Riddance!" I however don't even care.

  10. It's not just Internet by Solandri · · Score: 2

    Because IE came with Windows, a lot of companies only bothered to test things like device interfaces with IE. Some of my older security cameras have this problem. I can receive their video and change some general settings using a NVR app just fine. But if I want to change some of the more obscure settings, it has to be done via a web interface on the camera. And that interface only works with an older version of IE. I have to fire up an un-updated copy of Windows XP in a virtual machine to change those settings.

    1. Re:It's not just Internet by orient · · Score: 1

      Or add the camera "site" to the compatibility view list in IE11?

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  11. what about Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like this site still supports âoeIE6â.

  12. I don't miss windows. by Jastiv · · Score: 1

    I remember worrying about EOL on Windows, no way to get stuff back. Proprietary software etc. I guess I don't miss it. I know I saved myself a lot of pain moving to Gnu/Linux. Do people even use IE anymore? Well, slashdot probably isn't really the place to ask that.

    1. Re: I don't miss windows. by subie · · Score: 1

      That's a nice story but that doesn't apply to this article. And not all applications can be run on linux based OSs.

    2. Re: I don't miss windows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And not all applications can be run on linux based OSs.

      You say this as though it's a bad thing...

  13. I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm glad retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski is here. It is fun exposing all of his lies and bullshit while he flails about repeating his previously disproved statements proving he has nothing and lost long ago. He also provides a good target for those who like to mock the mentally disabled. Too bad he is upset that even cdreimer is more successful than he could ever be.

    1. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can't you see?

      cdreimer and APK is the same physical person although that person has many personalities, including impersonating 30 year old women from New York.

      He never gives up on any of his long tail revenue streams so he keeps selling the merits of his host file program here, pretending that APK is worse than creimer.

      APK is a smoke screen and only one of his long tail revenue stream.

    2. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow! This makes perfect sense! This would explain why APK never went after creimer even if creimer attacked APK several times.

      The APK personality usually doesn't hesitate a second before retaliating against any Slashdot user making fun of him.

      Also, creimer always leaves traces in any pseudonym he picks up. For APK, he did something similar to HAL (IBM) in 2001 space odyssey.

      A+2 = C
      P+2 = R
      K+2 = M

      CRM == creimer.

    3. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This would explain why APK never went after creimer even if creimer attacked APK several times.

      APK and creimer went down that rabbit hole in 2016. It was an epic battle, neither side winning nor losing. They kept their distance ever since.

    4. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I assume this was posted by a totally Anonymous Collaborator who sure isn't creimer (a.k.a APK).

      Who could you be then, oh mysterious stranger?

    5. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Look at creimer's videos/posts, where a seemingly mildly retarded fat man rambles boring inanities.

      APK is annoying and probably a virgin, but that's as far as the resemblance goes.

    6. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 0

      Also, creimer always leaves traces in any pseudonym he picks up. For APK, he did something similar to HAL (IBM) in 2001 space odyssey.

      A+2 = C P+2 = R K+2 = M

      CRM == creimer.

      Remember when you had a massive hard on for Captain Dork? That was before you latched on The Original CDR as the new creimer.

    7. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "creimer always leaves traces in any pseudonym he picks up"

      He also leaves traces when he sits down!

    8. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Remember when you thought stringing together a bunch of words would net you 2 million dollars by retirement?

      https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

      How's that working out for you?

    9. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 1

      I'm not __aaclcg7560. Weird username. Please go back to CaptainDork and ask for a beating. That's much more entertaining than accusing me of being creimer.

    10. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So this isn't you?

      On October 2, 2017:
      https://www.kickingthebitbucke...

      When the last post was September 5, 2017?
      https://slashdot.org/~__aaclcg...

      No connection? Even though you use the same boring anecdotes and catchphrases?

    11. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 0

      Nope. Go back to CaptainDork and request a beating. He's waiting for you.

    12. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      OK Chris, whatever you say!

    13. Re:I'm glad retarded bitch APK is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Days Metamoderated in a Row 2019-01-19

      Nice to see you gaming the moderation system. Better not fuck up!!! It's a bannable offense (As poor 'anonymous cashews' discovered)

  14. No water bowl for ants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That is like warning ants that you will stop putting a water bowl out for them.

  15. Re:Don't waste your time reading the summary or TF by rastos1 · · Score: 1

    Just yesterday I noticed that "Diagnostic Tools" view in Visual Studio 2017 says: "The content requires a new version of Internet Explorer"

  16. All versions of Internet Explorer, Egde and Window by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All versions of Internet Explorer, Egde and Windows should be terminated.

  17. Waste of time by geekymachoman · · Score: 1

    They should just go ahead and terminate all of IEs, Edges and other crap.
    Make life easier for all of us.
    Replace them with "Google Chrome Downloader", that's all their browsers do nowdays anyway.

    1. Re:Waste of time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why when Chromium is better and is what Google Chrome is based on.

      All this millennial 'nowdays/nowadays' speak urgggggggg.

  18. Re:Don't waste your time reading the summary or TF by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

    Thing about Windows Embedded is that support ends the day it's released. You find ridiculous bugs like the .NET Embedded framework not supporting Portuguese language, and Microsoft tell you "yeah we know, there is no business case to fix it, here's your support ticket credit."

    Even the desktop systems don't get decent support once the new version is out. The fixes they do get are barely tested and cause huge performance issues, and the only fix is to upgrade.

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  19. "... pristine server environment" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ha ha ha ha ha, I'm having a good laugh about that one.

  20. Information is useful thanks who you are :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ah good to see you what the information u given to remember worrying about EOL on Windows, no way to get stuff back. Proprietary software etc. I guess I don't miss it
    Aimsoftech
    Dbhosiery
    Lineoutlet

  21. There's a bigger problem hidden in TFS by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    IE can easily be replaced for most applications. It's not that easy for Win7. Basically, what MS tells us it's less than a year now that we have to finally make the move over to Linux unless we want to deal with Win10.

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  22. new holiday in januari 2020 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I would suggest making a new worldwide holiday in januari of 2020... to celebrate the amount of time we got extra for our families, because we didn't need to fix our sites for the internet explorer anymore...

  23. IE11still supported by Merk42 · · Score: 1

    Until I guess the heat death of the universe.

  24. Be GLAD I'm here: Why? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  25. I am waiting for IE11 to die... by gosand · · Score: 1

    Kind of from a morbid curiosity standpoint.
    Where I work we have an enterprise-wide platform that only works with IE11 and Silverlight. I know Silverlight is supposed to 'go away' in 2020, but I don't know what that really *means*. As long as IE is around, and as long as they don't specifically disable Silverlight, our application will still work.

    All efforts over the past 5 years to talk Sr Management into rewriting it in HTML 5 haven't worked. They are convinced that we can created replacements in the cloud (on a new technology stack). But it is a HUGE gamble because our clients are notorious for be slow to upgrade, and our platform is pretty large and complex. We are definitely not on track to be done by 2020. So I suspect that any day MS could publish an updated to IE11 or Win10 and we would effectively be dead in the water.

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  26. IF creimer attacked me? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    IF creimer attacked me? I'd like to see proof of it & then, IF he did?? I'd tell him to look in a mirror - that's all (his own hideous visage is attack enough).

    * WoW - you exemplify the LSD articles on /. lately (not even a "nice try" @ being 'clever' w/ your PSEUDO numerology). Believe me, IF anyone is the POLAR OPPOSITE of CReimer, it's me. On TONS of levels.

    APK

    P.S.=> CREIMER really, Really, REALLY must've pissed off whipslash with that video of his where he CUT DOWN /. (maybe his jock comment WAS directed my way but @ least I can say I was NCAA 1st string athlete material - he can't, that's certain) considering it doesn't "take a brain" to KNOW who's REALLY behind all the pussy style backstabbing attacks on CReimer when he's not around on /. anymore (good for him)... apk

  27. When you do BETTER than this? Talk... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you do BETTER than this? Talk https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & stand behind your words with PROOF of your bullshit, weezil who STALKS me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts like the PUSS you are, lol!

    * WEEZIL!

    (Your problem JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie" is that you are NOTHING but SHIT talk...)

    APK

    P.S.=> You're a DO-NOTHING chattering TWAT "ne'er-do-well" uneducated UNSKILLED weezil @ that, lmao... apk

  28. I glad you're here too, WHY? LOL... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & when YOU do BETTER than I have here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... then CHATTER MORE you ineffectual DO-NOTHING useless TWAT who STALKS me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts like the uneducated LAZY "ne'er-do-well" you are, JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie", lol!

    * JOWIE - your JEALOUS is showing again!

    APK

    P.S.=> Big 'accomplishment' for you either IMPERSONATING me OR by your STALKING me constantly but, as everyone sees, I NULLIFY your lies w/ facts I use vs. your bullshit & I also NULLIFY your PUNY "wannabe weapon" in your ABUSED downmods too... apk

  29. Reduce QA workload by Tony+Isaac · · Score: 1

    When you're writing Web apps, you only have to test the current version of Chrome and Firefox. But IE, you've got to test IE 11, IE 10, and maybe older versions, all separately, because they aren't backward compatible. With one fewer version of IE to test, suddenly a bunch of QA people will have time on their hands!

  30. The government will still be using it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The government has forms that were written using .ASP and sharepoint hooks that aren't supported in anything else! Now they'll have to spend tens of dollars to upgrade to a system of index-cards in a shoebox to do their work. Is that what it's come too?

  31. warn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Warning? Or promise?

  32. CREIMER WE GOT CREIMER HERE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Go away creimer
    BOO F U Creimer!!!

  33. Creimer pwned APK!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Creimer totally whipped your ass APK it was the biggest thrashing I've ever seen.