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Microsoft Warns Internet Explorer 10 Will Be Terminated In January 2020 (theregister.co.uk) 86

Posted by BeauHD from the mark-your-calendar dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Microsoft has warned that it isn't only Windows 7 for the chop in 2020. Unloved Internet Explorer 10 will be joining it. Finally. Internet Explorer 10 first appeared back in 2012 and in 2016 Microsoft made a concerted effort to kill the thing by focusing its support efforts on Internet Explorer 11. Anything not Edge-related or without "11" after it would no longer be supported. However, not every operating system was capable of actually running Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft infamously restricted its Edge browser to Windows 10 (and later iOS and Android). Notable exceptions to the IE10 crackdown were Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Embedded.

At this point administrators will doubtless be shuddering at the memory of having to run Internet Explorer in their pristine Server environment in order to get access to some recalcitrant function or component. Alas, the shuddering must resume since after a two-year stay of execution, Microsoft has decided that IE10 must be stamped out completely. Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Server 2012 will remain supported until 2023 after all, and keeping IE10 patched for another four years is doubtless keeping the engineers awake at night. Microsoft has therefore warned that as well killing off Windows 7 in 2020, enterprises that prefer to take a slower path will have to update IE on their 2012 Servers, since IE10 support will finally end for everything in January 2020. Unlike Windows 7, you won't even be able to pay for patches.
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  • Noooo... (Score:4, Funny)

    by dryriver ( 1010635 ) on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:19PM (#58042396)
    (Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!

    • Re:Noooo... (Score:4, Funny)

      by The Original CDR ( 5453236 ) on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:22PM (#58042412)

      (Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!

      IE6 has been gone for a long time. Time to move on...

      • But IE6 ran so well on my Commodore 128. I even managed to get it to load a GIF with FLOYD-STEINBERG DITHERING once.

      • (Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!

        IE6 has been gone for a long time. Time to move on...

        Oh?

    • Because IE came with Windows, a lot of companies only bothered to test things like device interfaces with IE. Some of my older security cameras have this problem. I can receive their video and change some general settings using a NVR app just fine. But if I want to change some of the more obscure settings, it has to be done via a web interface on the camera. And that interface only works with an older version of IE. I have to fire up an un-updated copy of Windows XP in a virtual machine to change those

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Where is Sarah Connor when you need her? And why is Skynet sending killer robots back to take out a web browser???

  • She rejoices
    • Boomark me if you wantz to live... (On a side note, how come Skynet didn't update and reboot itself randomly, given that it was almost certainly built by Micro... erm... Cyberdyne?)

  • Don't waste your time reading the summary or TFA (Score:5, Informative)

    by avandesande ( 143899 ) on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:28PM (#58042438) Journal
    Mainstream support for IE 10 ended in 2016 except for on Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows 2012 server. Support will end for these two OS in January 2020.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by rastos1 ( 601318 )
      Just yesterday I noticed that "Diagnostic Tools" view in Visual Studio 2017 says: "The content requires a new version of Internet Explorer [microsoft.com]"

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Thing about Windows Embedded is that support ends the day it's released. You find ridiculous bugs like the .NET Embedded framework not supporting Portuguese language, and Microsoft tell you "yeah we know, there is no business case to fix it, here's your support ticket credit."

      Even the desktop systems don't get decent support once the new version is out. The fixes they do get are barely tested and cause huge performance issues, and the only fix is to upgrade.

  • you know, just to make sure it's not going to get back up and mess with you, just when you thought it was dead but it really wasn't.

    RIP(es) you red-headed stepchild of a browser that nobody will ever miss.

    • What you wrote is deeply offensive to completely computer illiterate people who liked using the greatest clusterfuck of a web browser ever made. You should be more Politically Correct the next time. You should also buy and use some Apple gear, so you can better understand and empathize with the cognitive impairments completely computer illiterate people have to live with every day. The more people understand each other, the nicer a world we will all inhabit. =) Can I get my Nobel Prize from CNN now?

      • What you wrote is deeply offensive to completely computer illiterate people who liked using the greatest clusterfuck of a web browser ever made. You should be more Politically Correct the next time. You should also buy and use some Apple gear, so you can better understand and empathize with the cognitive impairments completely computer illiterate people have to live with every day. The more people understand each other, the nicer a world we will all inhabit. =) Can I get my Nobel Prize from CNN now?

        I use FireFox to show my support for the downtrodden of society.

        I have a cultural sensitivity that doesn't allow me to purchase Apple products.

        I did have a hand soldered Apple II+ clone I built and a IIcx running AU/X work let me use at home but I've never actually purchased an Apple product in my life.

        • FireFox is a CAPITALIST browser that ELITES use to browse the web. It is even used on Wall Street. I am deeply offended by your insensitivity in praising alternative browsers like FireFox. As for your unwillingness to buy Apple products, you are greatly damaging the oil-rich Arab investors who really own Apple. That too is offensive. (Now I get a Nobel Prize from CNN, and an Academy Award from the European Union!)

  • ... yellow belly motherfuckin' sumbitchin' blue-balled bastards.

    Wait. IE went all the way to 10?

    • That depends on how you MEASURE it, you see?. Completely Scientific Example: Microsoft Windows 10 is actually Windows NT 6.0. But it is also Windows 10, kind of like wave-particle duality in optics. Thus Internet Explorer 10 must be IE NT 6.0. So it kind of went to 6 only, but at the same time went to 10 as well. Kind of like wave-particale duality in optics. Now the question is, what would happen if either IE or Windows had gone up to ELEVEN? Nothing good obviously, so Microsoft TERMINATES products that TR

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Merk42 ( 1906718 )
      It went all the way to 11, and no, I'm not just making a Spinal Tap joke.
    • CaptainDork, please take back these creimertards?! They have been following me around ever since I commented on one of your story submission months ago because they think I'm creimer. They need a proper beating. ;)

      • We here at CD Acronyms United want you to know that we are proud to host the creimertards on a rotating basis. The diluent you bring to the CDAU movement to mask the whereabouts of the magnanimous criemer, work to provide confusion among the small group of haters and stalkers.

        This, too shall pass. :)

  • Either that or they just don't want a share of the browser market.

    After what happened with IE 6 when they had entire corporate systems tied to the browser they decided needed to go away, you would think they would shy away from creating a never again attitude in users.

  • Many orgs inadvertently/incompetently hard-wired their applications to IE10 and it may not be easy to convert. In some cases it's Active-X or Silverlight dependency. They will be ticked.

    • Nobody tied themselves to IE10 (that doesn't even make sense). IE11 is still around, and it isn't going anywhere due to the ubiquitous ShDocVw component. And VB6 is still supported and probably will in backward compatibility perpetuity because all it requires is the runtime and a handful of legacy libraries that will ship with Windows regardless
  • I remember worrying about EOL on Windows, no way to get stuff back. Proprietary software etc. I guess I don't miss it. I know I saved myself a lot of pain moving to Gnu/Linux. Do people even use IE anymore? Well, slashdot probably isn't really the place to ask that.
  • They should just go ahead and terminate all of IEs, Edges and other crap.
    Make life easier for all of us.
    Replace them with "Google Chrome Downloader", that's all their browsers do nowdays anyway.

  • IE can easily be replaced for most applications. It's not that easy for Win7. Basically, what MS tells us it's less than a year now that we have to finally make the move over to Linux unless we want to deal with Win10.

  • Until I guess the heat death of the universe.

  • Kind of from a morbid curiosity standpoint.
    Where I work we have an enterprise-wide platform that only works with IE11 and Silverlight. I know Silverlight is supposed to 'go away' in 2020, but I don't know what that really *means*. As long as IE is around, and as long as they don't specifically disable Silverlight, our application will still work.

    All efforts over the past 5 years to talk Sr Management into rewriting it in HTML 5 haven't worked. They are convinced that we can created replacements in the c

  • When you're writing Web apps, you only have to test the current version of Chrome and Firefox. But IE, you've got to test IE 11, IE 10, and maybe older versions, all separately, because they aren't backward compatible. With one fewer version of IE to test, suddenly a bunch of QA people will have time on their hands!

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