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The document makes things wildly unclear as to which versions of IE are actually supported by Microsoft. In practical terms it's still IE9 and IE11 for a while
by andy_ppp 11y ago
The document makes things wildly unclear as to which versions of IE are actually supported by Microsoft.
In practical terms it's still IE9 and IE11 for a while (so far as I can tell)?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I...
I'm sure there is still a load of Windows Vista SP2 machines around...
- mkozlows 11y agoYes, Vista still exists -- but it's not much of the market, because it only existed for a short while before Win7 replaced it, and it never got much corporate adoption (where people hold onto legacy IE forever). Unsupported XP is, in practice, probably more of an issue than Vista.
- gtk40 11y agoMy thoughts too. If versions of Windows less than Windows 7 are supported which cannot run IE11, and IE11 is the only version being supported, are those older versions of Windows still really supported? Windows Vista has support through 2017 and Windows Server 2008 has support through 2020.
- gsnedders 11y agoIE9 remains supported on Vista (as it's the last release of IE that runs on it). IE9/IE11 is all that remains supported on client releases on Windows (Server and Embedded versions of Windows continue to use pretty much everything from IE7 upwards). https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer?wa=wsignin1.0 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-ex... provides a clearer overview of what the supported version where is. (Note that it excludes OSes that are currently supported by end support before 12 Jan 2016.)