Internet Explorer to be Permanently Disabled on Windows 10 on February 14, 2023

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/internet-explorer-11-desktop-app-retirement-faq/ba-p/2366549

by tech234a • 4 years ago

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syklep• 4 years ago

This is frustrating. More than once, issues with Edge not opening or not working prevented me from browsing/installing another browser. Without IE, I would have been SOL. Just now realizing there are probably baked in powershell methods like winget.

ndegruchy• 4 years ago

Curl (like, the real deal curl.exe) is also available on Windows 10 since... a while.

anenefan• 4 years ago

I take what I saw of Edge's behaviour in 2015 when Win 10 was being installed on retail laptops, as a good "clear" hint where M$ plans to eventually head.

I was asked as a favour to look at a laptop that was having "issues" (ultimately resolved by uninstalling Mc Afee which was preventing a network connection via a usb dongle - other normal paths familiar in earlier M$ OSes to investigate / resolve I noted had been locked down - which M$ I heard later, wound back.) This laptop was only two weeks from purchase, and relatively untouched and I arrived not planning to do anything drastic but resolve a connection issue.

I expected Edge to work with caveats, what I wasn't expecting, would be best described as a hidden "disallow" list where the action was simply printing a white page, no error, no nothing. Not even Abode's flash. Of course it remained a mystery to me for an hour or so, until Firefox was installed.

The problem was with installing a new browser was searching for it on the web if one hadn't brought a copy. Edge iirc wasn't doing that well either, as I'd had no luck trying to download a couple of good tools I resort to dig deeper into what setting Mc Afee had altered.

Eventually I realised M$ had not removed IE, it worked as expected, which allowed me to find the latest version of Firefox.

TeaDude• 4 years ago

Didn't they already do this? I work at a massive org and we got bit by the earlier cut-off date. (Due to a large reliance on embedded activex stuff. Thanks microsoft for your scummy vendor lock-in on the web and thanks enterprise programming for having an obscene sixth sense for accruing technical debt with an eyewatering subscription fee.)

Internet Explorer to be Permanently Disabled on Windows 10 on February 14, 2023

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