IE Out-Of-Date

[huffman]

Why do many of the websites I go to say that IE 11 is out of date?

 

[Alejandro85]

Because it's an obsolete browser.
Microsoft stoped development of it some years ago, only receiving mainteinance fixes but no new features, fundamentally implememting the HTML standard as it was in 2013. Some sites use features newer than this and some of them complain if you use such an old browser, requesting to switch to something else.

With the release of Windows 10 it was renamed as "Edge" and new versions came out under its name, but only as a Windows 10 tablet program (earlier Windows are still capped at IE11). Recently Microsoft dropped support for it entirely, in favor of Google Chrome (still under the name of "Edge"), putting the final nail in the coffin of Internet Explorer.

 

[flavallee]

Which version of Internet Explorer do you have? The current version is 11.0.205

I personally have a few sites that no longer support it in both Windows 7 and Windows 10, so I switch to Mozilla Firefox 79 to view them.

 

[Bree]

Because it's an obsolete browser....

True...

With the release of Windows 10 it was renamed as "Edge" and new versions came out under its name, but only as a Windows 10 tablet program (earlier Windows are still capped at IE11). Recently Microsoft dropped support for it entirely, in favor of Google Chrome (still under the name of "Edge"), putting the final nail in the coffin of Internet Explorer.

Not quite accurate. the original Edge in W10 was an entirely new browser and both Edge and IE11 were included in W10.

The Legacy Edge has now been replaced in W10, but not with Google Chrome. The new Edge is based on the open source Chromium project. It is also available to install on MacOS, iOS, Android and Windows 7/8/8.1/10.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

In fact, you may have already seen it in Windows Update as an Important Update.

And IE11 is going to be supported in W10 for the foreseeable future.

...we want to be clear that IE 11 isn’t going away and that our customers’ own legacy IE 11 apps and investments will continue to work.

Microsoft 365 apps say farewell to Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 10 sunsets Microsoft Edge Legacy - Microsoft Tech Community - 1591666

 

[flavallee]

From what I heard, if you install Microsoft Edge in Windows 7 and then decide you don't like it, you won't be able to uninstall/remove it. Is there any truth to that?

 

[huffman]

So it all comes down to Microsoft not wanting to update their own product. So what is NEW.

 

[ugatme53]

From what I heard, if you install Microsoft Edge in Windows 7 and then decide you don't like it, you won't be able to uninstall/remove it. Is there any truth to that?

Edge shows up in Revo uninstaller so I assume you can.

 

[Keithuk]

I don't care if IE11 is out of date that is the best browser made because all settings and favorites you can see their location.

I have Firefox as backup browser only which is total crap for settings.

The older version used to ask do you want to import IE favorites YES.

The newer ones doesn't, I asked about this on here many times.

My IE.

IE11 11.0.9600.19230

Updated version: 11.0.101 4483187

Install new version automatically ticked

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb...update-for-internet-explorer-december-19-2018

As said "And IE11 is going to be supported in W10 for the foreseeable future."

Correct if M$ make software it should be compatible with any Windows version BILL GATES said that many years ago.

 

[Snick]

I have Firefox as backup browser only which is total crap for settings.

Why do you say that? There are numerous add-ons, options, about:config tweaks, etc.
I use Firefox, & have for years. I don't like IE, Edge or Chrome!
Everyone has their preferences!

 

[flavallee]

Keithuk:

Based on what you said in post #8, your Windows 7 is not up-to-date to its official end-of-life date of January 2020.

If it was, Internet Explorer would be at version 11.0.170 (11.0.9600.19596)

The version you submitted that you claim to have was released in December 2018 - which is more than a year before the official end-of-life date of January 2020.

 

[townsbg]

As said "And IE11 is going to be supported in W10 for the foreseeable future."

It may be supported through 10's lifecycle but they are no longer releasing new features. Therefore sites programmed to tell you that it's obsolete will continue to do so. Supporting it is their prerogative.

Correct if M$ make software it should be compatible with any Windows version BILL GATES said that many years ago.

He might or might not have said that but that isn't exactly what's happened. Office 2019 for example is only available for 10. Going further back, to the Bill Gates era, as another example, with Vista only Office XP and later was supported. When they release a new version of Windows they only go back so far with official support of older versions of their other products. It's realistically impossible for all versions of all of their software to be supported on all versions of Windows. They would have to release new updates to the older versions in order to add support which they of course won't do. This isn't just a practice of M$ or even for Windows but of all software products and OS's.

 

[TechnoMage2016]

I've been working the "Internet" since it was invented, and bulletin boards before that, with my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem.

So I'm more than just A LITTLE BIT familiar with WWW (Internet) communications.

Years ago, I.E. was falling on it's face (arse), and I and thousands of others were forced to use NetScape.
It was slow to load, on the old PC's of the day, but it worked, and would always get me where I needed to go.

Then out of seemingly Nowhere, came the Beta Test version of a new browser from Mozilla, called Firefox.
I jumped on that like a Goose on a Junebug, and I was there on minute one, of day one, when Firefox 1.0 was released. Over one million copies of Firefox were downloaded that day. The rest is just history.

But Firefox is a Browser, not a Search engine. I use a "Secure" search engine called "www.startpage.com", within Firefox. And, I have Firefox set to Automatically download and install updates.
There are setting within Startpage, that will sometimes get reset when Firefox updates, but it's no big deal to go into Startpage's "Settings" and make any needed corrections. That takes almost no time at all, and I've grown used to it.

Cheers mates,

 

[Keithuk]

Everyone has there own preference I'm just posting mine.

On a side note I've just done a format and rebuild its IE8 which I use on my Windows XP. You can't access any site with https only http.

I tried to install IE10 can't because IE is in use which it wasn't.

I had to do another rebuild keeping my exiting folder/files I had already added.

It is IE11 work that one out?

In a format from the CD you close everything so you don't know what files are left behind.

hiberfil.sys which is hidden and system is part of the registry along with C:\Windows\System32 folder.

M$ stop you, it saves people just copying from one computer to another.

 

[townsbg]

I'm sorry, but just what is your question? You have random statements that make no sense. If you are trying to download IE on XP you will need to install a more up to date browser so you can browse Microsoft's website. I recommend Firefox. The latest version for XP is here. Directory Listing: /pub/firefox/releases/52.9.0esr/win32/. Personally, if I where you, I'd stay with that. It's more up to date than IE 11 and is less likely to get error messages that the browser is no longer supported.