Let's be honest: this has been ten to twenty years in the making. IE has sucked since... well, since always, at least based on my 20 years of web dev experience

Let's be honest: this has been ten to twenty years in the making. IE has sucked since... well, since always, at least based on my 20 years of web dev experience that began with AOL (which of course was just a fancy-for-the-90s UI on top of IE). I remember the shims I had to write for IE support... I shudder at the memory of the amount of try...catch blocks full of ActiveX instantiation attempts required just to do an XHR. Of course, each version of IE was marginally better than the previous, and IE10+ did have XMLHttpRequest support (though with at least one bug), but still. The day Microsoft finally gave up on that very dead horse and just put a coat of paint over Chromium, I laughed, but also celebrated. What are the chances that this Microsoft abandonment will force large institutions to stop using IE? Asking for a friend... that friend being me and those "large institutions" being several of my clients.