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Considering Microsoft doesn't even support ie11 any more, no one else should.
by soperj 6y ago
Considering Microsoft doesn't even support ie11 any more, no one else should.
- bluefirebrand 6y agoAnd yet many places still probably do, because some corporate IT has refused to upgrade, and they are a core customer that needs to be supported.
- traveler01 6y agoSo basically you're wasting your money supporting those outdated browsers because someone refused to waste their money upgrading their browsers? How about security?
- Firehawke 6y agoFor internal use (e.g. inside a corporation that bought heavily into ActiveX, etc) you're going to have a hell of a time getting authorization to rewrite things because "it works just fine and we don't feel a need to spend money on this" That's not changing any time soon; even with old IE ripped out of Windows 10 to a large extent, there are still multitudes of kiosks and other custom setups using XP/Vista out there that won't be getting any upgrade.
- bluefirebrand 6y agoFrom a business standpoint if it is earning more money than it costs, is it a waste of money? Security should absolutely be more of a concern but it's not. You're talking about business choices not engineering choices.
- traveler01 6y agoAt that point would be like paying for insurance. I mean, don't they take into account that leaving their systems unsecure can be very bad for the company?
- postalrat 6y agoMany places do because they have people like yourself thinking they should. But really nobody would notice if you dropped support.
- fedorareis 6y agoI would argue that if Microsoft was serious about not supporting IE11 they would stop shipping it with Windows 10. Until they do a lot of corporations will continue to use it and have it set as the default browser for their employees.
- 908B64B197 6y agoThey still ship it for intranet websites compatibility and for Silverlight. I think the plan is for Edge to one day have a way to display pages in IE compatibility mode.