• Microsoft deleting – not moving – old Internet Explorer documentation

    Posted on November 9, 2019 at 05:43 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    A disturbing report from @VulturEMaN:

    My RSS feeds for MS documentation updates is showing a lot of IE8/9 documentation updates, but when I click those links all result in a 404. Likely these pages are being deleted. This just started over the last 2 days.

    Feed that doesn’t show the deletions: https://support.microsoft.com/app/content/api/content/feeds/sap/en-us/6a88efa5-712b-9e99-f1b9-368dc2d81f2e/rss

    And then they’re deleting the update from the RSS feed itself. The proof is in the RSS posts that my feeder.io account is showing for that feed, since RSS readers typically keep a copy of anything ever in the feed, even if it was added by mistake or removed.

    I have no kind words for people that delete documentation.Why aren’t they moving it to a site like archive.microsoft.com and then put a big banner at the top that it’s legacy? How many of these articles are relevant to later versions of IE, so we don’t repeat history?

    You can read a more detailed account – including a list of 74 links that have disappeared – on Reddit.

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