Microsoft news....

[Oh_That_Guy]

Actually, a lot of corporate environments have to use IE. And pretty out of date versions of IE at that.

This is true and has been for quite a while. Understandable from a certain point of view but a real pain in the butt.

 

[about_average]

Actually, a lot of corporate environments have to use IE. And pretty out of date versions of IE at that.

oh yeah, I know. I should have said, "People still use IE by choice?"

 

[Lancecastor]

NCSA Mosaic was my fave; the beginning of the Web was pretty cool stuff at the time.

I worked at an early national ISP, where we paid for Netscape to provide to our Users in their Start Up Kit.

One day, these weenies from Microsoft wandered in and offered us free unlimited hard copies of IE.

 

[Hypoxia]

All this new-fangled Web stuff -- why aren't people satisfied with Gopher?

And good old ftp.

And magnetic cores.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

RIP IE: Older versions of Microsoft's browser lose support next week

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ons-microsofts-browser-lose-support-next-week

Atm, I am still using 8, so now I need advice on what to upgrade to.
I keep hearing horror stories about the newer versions....

So this news only applies to IE, and the rest of the system is fine?
I use firefox as my browser.

If you're using Firefox on WINDOWS 8 you should be fine. Don't change a thing. I use Firefox on WIN 7 Home Edition and every time an ad pops up offering a Windows 10 free upgrade, I just delete it.

Someday I'll probably buy a new computer and just accept whatever WIN operating system it happens to come with -- probably WIN 15.

 

[Noor]

Actually, a lot of corporate environments have to use IE. And pretty out of date versions of IE at that.

Versions you can drive a truck through

 

[Dream_Operator]

Actually, a lot of corporate environments have to use IE. And pretty out of date versions of IE at that.

Our online banking portal (Union Bank: AKA Mitsubishi Bank) only works (completely) with IE.

The flip side is that our Cisco VPN client that we have used for years is no longer supported by Windows 10, in fact it won't let you even install it on a W 10 machine (without a hack-around