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  • IE 11 on Windows is gone, but it's still there

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 5 20:11:51 2022
    From the «like herpes, you'll never be free» department:
    Feed: OSnews
    Title: Here is how you can still open Internet Explorer in Windows 11 if you really, really want to
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:54:22 -0400
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/135151/here-is-how-you-can-still-open-internet-explorer-in-windows-11-if-you-really-really-want-to/


    Internet Explorer was finally killed off for almost every consumer version of Windows on June 15, 2022. It’s death was even mourned celebrated with faux gravestones commemorating it as a “good tool to download other browsers”. However, it seems like Microsoft’s browser still lives on in the depths of its
    latest operating system.

    Although Windows 11 does not officially come bundled with Internet Explorer, the ancient browser can still be launched on the OS[1].

    This thing will never die. I will go to my grave when Windows 32 hits and it will still come with iexplore.exe because the online passport request form in some tiny municipality in Slovenia only works in IE.

    Links:
    [1]: https://www.neowin.net/news/here-is-how-you-can-still-open-internet-explorer-in-windows-11-if-you-really-really-want-to/ (link)



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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Thu Aug 11 10:15:09 2022
    On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 20:11:51 -0000 (UTC)
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Internet Explorer was finally killed off for almost every consumer
    version of Windows on June 15, 2022.

    Does that only apply to Windows 10 or also to Windows 8.1 and 7?
    I remember installing Win 10 home (didn't remember the build number) in
    2021 and it already didn't came with IE11.

    It’s death was even mourned celebrated with faux gravestones
    commemorating it as a “good tool to download other browsers”.

    MS already did celebrate that with Clippy in Office.

    However, it seems like Microsoft’s browser still lives on in the
    depths of its latest operating system.

    Of course, and many application rely on IE-specific functions like
    Active X.

    Although Windows 11 does not officially come bundled with Internet
    Explorer, the ancient browser can still be launched on the OS[1].

    This thing will never die. I will go to my grave when Windows 32 hits
    and it will still come with iexplore.exe because the online passport
    request form in some tiny municipality in Slovenia only works in IE.

    That was already nasty when it came out, because it required people to
    run Windows and IE. I hope consumer windows versions won't support the
    IE mode in future, so such web services won't work anymore and must be replaced.

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