Microsoft will end assistance for Internet Explorer 11 throughout its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. In precisely a year, on August 17th, 2021, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported for Microsofts online services like Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more. Microsoft is likewise ending support for Internet Explorer 11 with the Microsoft Teams web app later on this year, with support ending on November 30th.
While its still going to take a while to pry enterprise users of Internet Explorer 11 away, Microsoft is hoping that the new Internet Explorer legacy mode in the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser will help. It will continue to let organizations access old websites that were particularly built for Internet Explorer, till Microsoft totally drops support for Internet Explorer 11 within Windows 10. Microsofts relocation to stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 with its main web properties is a good very first action.
Tradition Edge will disappear next March
Together with the support modifications, Microsoft is likewise preparing to drop assistance for its existing legacy variation of Microsoft Edge on March 9th, 2021. After completion of assistance date, the tradition version of Edge will no longer receive security updates. Microsoft has been moving existing Windows 10 users over to new its Chromium-based Edge internet browser, and the company says new devices and future Windows feature updates will all include the new Edge web browser.
Microsoft has actually been working on exterminating Internet Explorer usage and support for several years now. The company initially revealed its brand-new Edge web browser back in 2015, codenamed at the time Project Spartan. It was the start of the end for the Internet Explorer brand. Microsoft has actually considering that identified Internet Explorer a “compatibility solution” instead of an internet browser and urged services to stop using the aging web browser.
