Internet Explorer 8,9, and 10 Finally Die Next Week
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Yes it will. Where I work, we have crucial systems that are old, and cost prohibitive to upgrade. They really hold you back. Thankfully, IE 11 has a nice built in IE 7/8 emulator which so far has been working beautifully in testing. IE 9 was a way bigger headache, than IE 11 is proving to be.
great. I'm on 9 (where I have to be, I use Chrome for everything I can) and even that was a sneak update I did from 7.
From a consumer standpoint it makes a lot of sense, however as many have already mentioned, I don't know what a lot of companies will do. I know a lot of companies that rely on out-dated web based software that must run on certain versions of IE. At my previous position you could only have meetings in certain rooms depending on what systems you needed access to and which version of IE was installed in those rooms.
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Totally agree. Every time I use it, I feel like I'm participating in an experiment, and that Edge is just the beta for their real release which will almost certainly have the tagline: "we want to change the way you think about internet browsers"
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The worst spot to be in, is trying to atone for the IT sins of the past. I've run into situations where a system was purchased long ago, pre-dating most of the current staff, and at some point, when faced with the cost of an upgrade, the decision was made to go off maintenance. Then, years go by with no software updates, and no changes, and the cost to bring us up to date just gets larger and larger. And when an unavoidable compatibility issues comes along, it becomes this giant roadblock.
I would shed no tears if MS got out of the browser business. From what I've read/seen, Edge isn't bringing anything revolutionary to the table, and a primary design feature is to make porting already-available extensions from other browsers easy because MS knows they are way late to the game, much like with their latest phone OS.
My experiences have indicated that if MS is late to the game with something, avoid it like the plague...
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Believe me, I try. No choice when it comes to systems where I work, unfortunately. We have to test it.
Our IT department has us on IE9. We got that after being way behind and I believe it might not have even been the latest when we finally got it. Considering they generally take about 18 months to do their own testing on something before implementation I imagine they are in scramble mode right now.
Luckily about a month ago my rebel IT guy let me know that despite not supposed to being able to download and install programs the system will just tell you it isn't allowed but will let you install Chrome anyway. CF was behaving terribly in IE9. Unfortunately we have some systems that they let us know we must access through IE whether we do at work or remotely. What a Charlie Foxtrot.
We have MSEdge at home and it will often display a bug where it will not allow you to enter data in a field so doing things like logging into sites or sending an email through a web based program is occasionally impossible. Apparently a known issue. I will download Chrome when Mrs. Velo isn't looking.
Luckily about a month ago my rebel IT guy let me know that despite not supposed to being able to download and install programs the system will just tell you it isn't allowed but will let you install Chrome anyway. CF was behaving terribly in IE9. Unfortunately we have some systems that they let us know we must access through IE whether we do at work or remotely. What a Charlie Foxtrot.
We have MSEdge at home and it will often display a bug where it will not allow you to enter data in a field so doing things like logging into sites or sending an email through a web based program is occasionally impossible. Apparently a known issue. I will download Chrome when Mrs. Velo isn't looking.
At least my DoD computer has IE 11 on it. It still blows though, and I still use my phone for CF.
At work so checked our version, it's 9 and they just "reimaged" my confuser because it was not accepting all of the security update stuff. I'm like who cares, the Chinese already have all of my personal/personnel data possibly including my fingerprints.
I checked with my rogue IT guy and he said that they have about 3 people at our location who have been beta testing 11 at our location but no word from the Central IT gods on when or if we are going to get something other than Internet Explorer 9.
I'm sure they will wait until we have security issue due to lack of MS updates and then hastily close the barn door after the horses are out.
I'm sure they will wait until we have security issue due to lack of MS updates and then hastily close the barn door after the horses are out.
