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On IE * Sunset on Nov 2018. * Support and compatibility from other MS products for IE terminated in Nov 2020. * Security support terminated 15 June 2022.
by austincheney 5y ago
On IE
* Sunset on Nov 2018.
* Support and compatibility from other MS products for IE terminated in Nov 2020.
* Security support terminated 15 June 2022.
- dmitriid 5y agoIE will effectively be supported until the current version of OS it was shipped on stops being supported. Also: ending IE support doesn't mean people magically just stop using it.
- austincheney 5y agoYou can continue supporting IE6 if you wish. Regardless, on 15 June IE becomes abandon-ware.
- dmitriid 5y ago> Regardless, on 15 June IE becomes abandon-ware. People don't care about some technical company doing something. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30112310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30112310
- austincheney 5y agoIt sounds like you have a fully self-imposed restraint qualified by expired data.
- dmitriid 5y agoNo, it doesn't. It only shows that I understand that the world doesn't care about "EoL" of tech. products. Close to half of Android users run on Android versions first released more than three years ago. Just because Google waves and magic wand and says "version X is unsupported" does not make them vanish from the face of the earth. Caniuse shows IE 11 at 0.66% global use. It means there are ~30-35 million users still using IE11. Depending on what service you run and who your target audience is, these users can make up a significant chunk of your user base. Windows 7 EoL was in 2020. As any smug know-it-all commenter on Hacker News knows, this means that it's now gone, never to be seen again. As reality shows, it still holds a 13% market share. And so on. Examples are too numerous to list. Do you have to support all these systems? It depends. It doesn't depend, however, on the arbitrary "two years is more than enough, drop support now".