Direct link to the blog post for those avoiding ZDnet https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/The-perils-of-using-Internet-Explorer-as-your-default-browser/ba-p/331732
Direct link to the blog post for those avoiding ZDnet
I hate how most tech news takes a page, rewords it and posts it as an article. This blogspam adds no value most of the time. The only time its ever acceptable is when the original source is too...
I hate how most tech news takes a page, rewords it and posts it as an article. This blogspam adds no value most of the time. The only time its ever acceptable is when the original source is too complex for the average person to understand.
Saying it's not a browser is a joke. If it really is just an enterprise compatibility tool, why isn't it set up with URL whitelisting by default? There is so much functionality they could and...
Saying it's not a browser is a joke. If it really is just an enterprise compatibility tool, why isn't it set up with URL whitelisting by default? There is so much functionality they could and should have stripped off if it were really just a compatibility tool.
If anything, I read it as a helping hand to beleaguered corporate IT staff - it gives them something to point to when trying to get approval to isolate and phase out IE: "even Microsoft says it's...
If anything, I read it as a helping hand to beleaguered corporate IT staff - it gives them something to point to when trying to get approval to isolate and phase out IE: "even Microsoft says it's just a compatibility tool, there's no excuse for us using it in general browsing".
It's not a claim that it was ever designed as a compatibility layer, or that it even is now, it's an authoritative source confirming that if you're using it for anything else, you're wrong.
Honestly, I get it. IE just exasperates me in general. IMHO it would have been much better if Microsoft had the balls to simply discontinue IE long ago. But I would bet the reason why they haven't...
Honestly, I get it. IE just exasperates me in general.
IMHO it would have been much better if Microsoft had the balls to simply discontinue IE long ago. But I would bet the reason why they haven't done it (besides Edge's missing features at launch) is because Microsoft is afraid some of their enterprise customers will jump ship if the software they were running didn't shackle them down to using IE and ActiveX.
I wish they would just kill it already. I work on a business focused tool and about 60% of our users are on IE. Its such a pain in the ass even with all this tooling like js babel.
I wish they would just kill it already. I work on a business focused tool and about 60% of our users are on IE. Its such a pain in the ass even with all this tooling like js babel.
This is going to hit South Korea hard, because so many government services and banking apps rely on IE to function... for regular citizens. Making an online transaction, up until 2 or years ago,...
This is going to hit South Korea hard, because so many government services and banking apps rely on IE to function... for regular citizens.
Making an online transaction, up until 2 or years ago, was a nightmare of ActiveX plugins, computer restarts, and even DLL hell.
Things have gotten better, but the long of ActiveX spares no one for long.
Direct link to the blog post for those avoiding ZDnet
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/The-perils-of-using-Internet-Explorer-as-your-default-browser/ba-p/331732
I may be out of the loop, why would one avoid zdnet?
I don't think it's about ZDnet so much, but more so, why not read the information from its original source?
I hate how most tech news takes a page, rewords it and posts it as an article. This blogspam adds no value most of the time. The only time its ever acceptable is when the original source is too complex for the average person to understand.
Seems like at least one person thinks there's a reason to avoid ZDnet?
Saying it's not a browser is a joke. If it really is just an enterprise compatibility tool, why isn't it set up with URL whitelisting by default? There is so much functionality they could and should have stripped off if it were really just a compatibility tool.
(Phone keyboard went berserk, edited for clarity)
If anything, I read it as a helping hand to beleaguered corporate IT staff - it gives them something to point to when trying to get approval to isolate and phase out IE: "even Microsoft says it's just a compatibility tool, there's no excuse for us using it in general browsing".
It's not a claim that it was ever designed as a compatibility layer, or that it even is now, it's an authoritative source confirming that if you're using it for anything else, you're wrong.
Honestly, I get it. IE just exasperates me in general.
IMHO it would have been much better if Microsoft had the balls to simply discontinue IE long ago. But I would bet the reason why they haven't done it (besides Edge's missing features at launch) is because Microsoft is afraid some of their enterprise customers will jump ship if the software they were running didn't shackle them down to using IE and ActiveX.
Hopefully Microsoft will drill this into companies so that devs can actually stop supporting it
Where does the article say the quote from this title?
I wish they would just kill it already. I work on a business focused tool and about 60% of our users are on IE. Its such a pain in the ass even with all this tooling like js babel.
This is going to hit South Korea hard, because so many government services and banking apps rely on IE to function... for regular citizens.
Making an online transaction, up until 2 or years ago, was a nightmare of ActiveX plugins, computer restarts, and even DLL hell.
Things have gotten better, but the long of ActiveX spares no one for long.