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PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Well, not quite. Sort of. Maybe. Partially. Over a year ago, Microsoft published the Internet Explorer 11 desktop app ret
[See the full post at: The end of the road for Internet Explorer]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
At least it have native RSS support
I never did understand why RSS was removed from browsers. A lengthy discussion about its removal from Firefox made no sense to me. A basic feed based on the ATOM spec is very simple to parse and, to my eye, isn’t dangerous. Written in PHP, the parser is less than a page of code.
That said, I had one site in particular where the owner (RIP) wanted the feed. In 2017 I dropped it and reverted to plain text. My reasoning was that “push” (what we now call “notifications”) is less desirable than search.
You can still add them to Outlook. And, as it happens, to Vivaldi.
IE has and will always leave a bad taste in my mouth. As a web site developer, the shenanigans MS pulled in the early browser wars irked me to no end. Always having to write two branches of code – one standards compliant and the other MS proprietary. Thanks for nothing MS.
Good riddance IE – you will NOT be missed.
I keep it available so I can view animated Gif files and actually see the animation. Since MS decided to make Windows Photo Viewer not show the animation starting with Win 7. That’s one of the things about Win 7 I thought was really dumb right from the start. I don’t use Internet Explorer for use on the web naturally.
Last week I found out the climate equipement of our office building is managed by Silverlight…. The company in charge of maintenance could no long access the system over internet. For quite a while, it seems. They hadn’t found a way to gain access. So I set out for a short search, and it turns out you can still use them old sites with Silverlight in MS Edge. In compatibility mode, which needs Internet Explorer 11 installed. And then you need to install Silverlight, which cannot be downloaded from MS anymore. Luckily the Internet Wayback machine came to the rescue. Took some fiddling with settings and then the Silverlight site was accessible again.
If you see the solution: “chrome://flags/#enable-npapi ” – it won’t work, unless you run really old version of Chrome. Use this site instead: HowTo: Use Silverlight-enabled website in Microsoft Edge Chromium | George Birbilis @zoomicon (wordpress.com)
Pretty sad the equipement manufacturer (Priva) still hasn’t sorted his Silverlight-based stuff….
The Internet Explorer 11 desktop app will be permanently disabled as part of February 2023 updates
– (Optional) January 2023 Windows non-security preview (“C”) release scheduled for January 17, 2023
– February 2023 Windows security update (“B”) release scheduled for February 14, 2023
– Note: As Windows updates are cumulative, Windows updates after February 2023 will also disable IE11.
New details on IE11 desktop application permanent disablement scheduled for February 14, 2023
– IE11 desktop application is scheduled to be permanently disabled … through a Microsoft Edge update, not a Windows update as previously communicated.
– IE11 visual references, .. will be removed by the May 2023 Windows non-security preview (‘C’) release, or June 2023 Windows security (‘B’) release
A Valentines day doubled edged cupids arrow from MSFT
Disabled not removed, so its trash remains installed.
Yup!
That’s because there are “other” parts of the Windows OS that still require the IE rendering engine to work properly (i.e. Outlook’s “view in browser” option, .hta (HTML application) files, etc.)
There’s still no “official” word from MS on when, or even if, they’ll change those parts so IE can be completely removed.
That’s because there are “other” parts of the Windows OS that still require the IE rendering engine to work properly…
What is useful in “legacyware” may not be known until legacyware is completely removed and programs dependent upon legacyware fail.
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