Karlston Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Microsoft announces end of support for Edge Legacy, Microsoft services dropping IE11 In January of this year, Microsoft formally introduced the new Edge browser based on the Chromium engine. It introduced a bunch of new features compared to the previous UWP-based version, now known as Edge Legacy, such as support for Chrome extensions, profiles, and more. Naturally, the new version of Edge is set to eventually replace Edge Legacy, and Microsoft has said that Windows 10 version 20H2 will ship with the new browser for the first time. Today, Microsoft announced that it's preparing to drop support for Edge Legacy, meaning it will no longer receive security updates. This will happen on March 9, 2021, at which point most Windows 10 users should already have the new Edge, since the browser is being pushed through Windows Update. Microsoft also announced that many of its web-based services, such as Office on the web and Teams, will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11. In fact, Teams will stop supporting IE11 as early as November 30, which means you may be unable to use the service altogether, or experience some kind of problem with it. The rest of Microsoft 365 will stop supporting the browser a full year from today, on August 17, 2021. One of the big new features of the new Edge is IE Mode, which is meant to ensure complete compatibility with legacy apps and websites that require IE11. This essentially means that IE11 apps will be housed in a tab inside Edge, acting like a regular website, thus removing the need to use a modern browser and IE11 at the same time. This is an enterprise-only feature, though. Microsoft announces end of support for Edge Legacy, Microsoft services dropping IE11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aum Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 You need to give that plate back to us after you've finished your cake. Yes the fork too. We'll get your coat The clock is ticking. Microsoft has warned customers its services won't be supported on the veteran browser within the year. To be fair to the Windows giant, it has been making determined efforts to kill off the former leading browser for some time now, telling customers it was merely a compatibility solution before sticking the knife in a little deeper earlier this year. Yesterday the company announced that it would be pulling support for the browser from Microsoft 365 apps and services (including the likes of Sharepoint) by this time next year. The lights will be turned off for some components even earlier – the Teams web app will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 from 30 November 2020. The announcement came as Internet Explorer was tucking into its 25th birthday cake. The original, a breathed-over version of Spyglass, debuted on 16 August 1995 before being swiftly superseded in the same year by IE2. 1996's IE3 was a considerably more capable beast, and the browser built up market share before enduring a precipitous decline following Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows was also a factor in delights such as the infamous browser ballot before it was eventually relegated to the thing you use to download Chrome. Even in that it was eventually replaced by the unloved Edge. The final release, the default for Windows 8.1, turned up in 2013 before being replaced by the doomed Edge browser in Windows 10. Security updates for the legacy incarnation of Edge will come to an end after 9 March 2021. Microsoft's latest effort, the Chromium-based Edge, will turn up in new Windows updates (from Windows 10 20H2) and features an IE11 compatibility mode aimed at enterprises that just can't let go of that one, weird app that requires the quirks of the elderly browser. According to stats wrangler NetMarketShare, IE11 is currently the fourth-placed desktop browser, behind Edge but ahead of Safari. "We want to be clear," insisted Microsoft, "that IE 11 isn't going away." What is going away, however, is support for the loathed browser from the company's Microsoft 365 line-up. No flowers. ® Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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