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Wow, I'm all for EOL'ing old versions of IE, but I'm surprised at the complete lack of notice (on a corporate scale). Was this known to be in the works for a w
by tempestn 11y ago
Wow, I'm all for EOL'ing old versions of IE, but I'm surprised at the complete lack of notice (on a corporate scale). Was this known to be in the works for a while?
My thinking is just that most larger companies will have zero chance of hitting a January deadline, and once the deadline passes, there's really no urgency to upgrade by any particular time. I would think a ~12 month deadline might be more effective in getting people to upgrade (as well as resulting in fewer compromised browsers).
- paulirish 11y agoThis was announced in August 2014: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-date-with-internet-explorer.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-dat...
- tempestn 11y agoCool, thanks. Perhaps a year and a half is too long! More likely I just didn't notice at the time since I don't use IE.
- mrmondo 11y agoI think a lot of people would have seen this coming, I'm surprised they 'supported' older browsers for so long.
- runholm 11y agoCorporate scale business does not want to depend on "seeing things coming". When you have millions upon millions invested you want to get explicit deadlines for when support for products you depend upon will be dropped. It is very expensive to either do unnecessary rewrites or getting started too late on necessary rewrites.