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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.
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.
(Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
She rejoices
I never clip my fingernails for fear of dangling symbolic links.
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.
love is just extroverted narcissism
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.
... yellow belly motherfuckin' sumbitchin' blue-balled bastards.
Wait. IE went all the way to 10?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
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.
Table-ized A.I.
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.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
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.
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.
Too bad we can't TERMINATE! M$ and the WindBLOWS 10 spy/virus as well!!!!!
Just yesterday I noticed that "Diagnostic Tools" view in Visual Studio 2017 says: "The content requires a new version of Internet Explorer"
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.
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.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Odd. I managed to do that just fine. fdisk and parted are your friends here.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Until I guess the heat death of the universe.
Until Microsoft TERMINATES the Internet too, of course.
I remember having to terminate my internet. 10BASE2. Now get off my lawn!
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.
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.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
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!