Microsoft is finally killing off Internet Explorer after 25 years being forced onto us thanks to being baked into every version of Windows since Windows 95. I’d say it was a bad day for the internet but I haven’t used IE since Windows ME.
Official support for the web browser will end on November 30. You’ll still be able to use the browser but with support ending you probably should not considering IE wasn’t the most secure thing even at the best of times and with full support.
That said, Microsoft 365 apps and services will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 (the final version) starting August 17 of 2021. This gives you all enough time to tell grandma and grandpa to move on to another browser to access Facebook and share vaguely racist posts and visit sites you never heard of full of pop-up adds for magic pills.
Microsoft, of course, wants you just to move on and use their new, new browser, Edge. Well, not the original Edge that launched in 2015 to replace IE, but instead the new Edge that is based on Chromium that came out earlier this year with the same exact name.
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