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.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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