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This could be the feature that finally kills off IE11. A bunch of businesses mandate IE11 to ensure compatibility with unmaintained internal systems; if they ca

This could be the feature that finally kills off IE11. A bunch of businesses mandate IE11 to ensure compatibility with unmaintained internal systems; if they can use Edge in IE11 mode, there's no reason to use the IE11 app. (This really makes me wish IE11 mode had been a feature of Edge from the very beginning. Think of how much time we've lost!)

spankalee 7y ago
I'm not sure how much it would have mattered to have IE mode before, since Edge only ran on Windows > 8.1 IE mode is really killer when combined with the fact that the new Edge will run on Windows 7.
- dfabulich 7y ago
  Windows 7 isn't my biggest concern, though I agree that IE mode on Edge for Win7 will strike a killing blow. According to my site's analytics, 41% of our IE11 users are on Windows 10, plus another 5.63% on Windows 8. (Windows 7 reaches End of Life in January 2020.)
  - yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
    So then ~53% of your IE11 users are still on Windows 7? That certainly sounds like something you should still care about.
    - dfabulich 7y ago
      I do care, (and of course we still support IE11 on any OS version) but Win7/IE11 users are gradually upgrading on their own. I was afraid that IE11 would literally never go away. Microsoft has said that they'll support IE11 until Windows 10 reached End of Life. But they've also said that Windows 10 is the "last version" of Windows, that they'll continue shipping new updates for Windows 10 in perpetuity. Now, I have hope.
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- Shorel 7y ago
  IE mode will not make the new Edge kill Chrome in market share. The relationship is the other way around: the lack of Windows 7 support is what killed Edge in the real world. Anyway, Microsoft is learning from its mistakes.
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    The implied victim seemed to be IE, not Chrome...
    - Shorel 7y ago
      In that case, it was already dead, for all practical purposes. For example https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here

spankalee 7y ago

I'm not sure how much it would have mattered to have IE mode before, since Edge only ran on Windows > 8.1 IE mode is really killer when combined with the fact that the new Edge will run on Windows 7.

dfabulich 7y ago
Windows 7 isn't my biggest concern, though I agree that IE mode on Edge for Win7 will strike a killing blow. According to my site's analytics, 41% of our IE11 users are on Windows 10, plus another 5.63% on Windows 8. (Windows 7 reaches End of Life in January 2020.)
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  So then ~53% of your IE11 users are still on Windows 7? That certainly sounds like something you should still care about.
  - dfabulich 7y ago
    I do care, (and of course we still support IE11 on any OS version) but Win7/IE11 users are gradually upgrading on their own. I was afraid that IE11 would literally never go away. Microsoft has said that they'll support IE11 until Windows 10 reached End of Life. But they've also said that Windows 10 is the "last version" of Windows, that they'll continue shipping new updates for Windows 10 in perpetuity. Now, I have hope.
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Shorel 7y ago
IE mode will not make the new Edge kill Chrome in market share. The relationship is the other way around: the lack of Windows 7 support is what killed Edge in the real world. Anyway, Microsoft is learning from its mistakes.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  The implied victim seemed to be IE, not Chrome...
  - Shorel 7y ago
    In that case, it was already dead, for all practical purposes. For example https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here