My dad had a nice nickname for Internet Explorer: “Internet Exploder,” an expression of contempt for the browser he refused to use, even though it was the preferred option for the vast majority of people in the late 90s and early 2000s. He loves the MSN Explorer browser, but I never understand itd why. Maybe it was the bubbly icons that took up an unnecessary amount of space at the top. (No, that was not the case at all.) Or maybe he just enjoys surfing the web through the same program you used to connect to the Internet.
In any case, he could be happy to learn that Microsoft was starting to end up with some support for its old nemesis, Internet Explorer 11.
Adjust, Microsoft announced its timeline for it, with support for Internet Explorer coming to an end only on November 30, 2020 in Microsoft teams. After that, Microsoft Edge Legacy will reach the end of its life on March 9, 2021, and all Microsoft 365 apps will stop supporting Internet Explorer on August 17, 2021. After those dates, “customers will have a degraded experience or will not be able to connect with Microsoft 365 apps and services on IE 11. For degraded experiences, new Microsoft 365 features will not be available or certain features may stop working when accessing the app or service through IE 11, ”Microsoft said in its blog.
Microsoft has made it clear that Internet Explorer will not go away completely, as its “own legacy IE 11 apps and customer investments will continue to work.” Edge has a Internet Explorer mode that allows you to use Internet Explorer from the Edge browser. In essence, Edge has the ability to run two different engines, Chromium and Trident, which could be beneficial for anyone still using Internet Explorer – a whopping 2.76% worldwide according to Stat Counter.
Trident has been technically terminated since Microsoft used its source code to create EdgeHTML, which is what Edge Legacy does, but Internet Explorer 11 still uses Trident, and as I mentioned earlier, uses Edge Chromium. If all that sounds unnecessarily confusing, then it’s probably a good thing that Microsoft is starting to simplify and consolidate its browsers around Edge.
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All of their browsers still support modern web standards like HTML5, but like Joe Belfiore, said Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Windows when the company said announced it to create a browser on Chromium, Edge would “create better web compatibility” for customers and “less web fragmentation for all web developers.” Nowadays, Edge feels very similar to Google Chrome because they both use the same engine. Edge can also support Chrome extensions from Chrome. Edge is now automatically installed with Windows 10, replacing Edge Legacy.
Overall, this move is a bigger push from Microsoft to integrate its Chromium-based Edge browser into M365 apps – and I’m not quite sure how my dad would feel about it today. My dad was the kind of man who wanted things to be as easy as possible, that he probably liked MSN Explorer because he could access his email and anything from the press of an icon to the top of the browser. In principle, he would probably rejoice over browsers to simplify one framework. But most of the time I think he would be happy to know that the days of Internet Exploder are numbered.
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