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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.
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
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?
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
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.
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?)
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.