Microsoft Will Force Remove Internet Explorer From Most Windows 10 PCs Today

Internet Explorer 11 was never the default browser for Windows 10 – it would have been the old pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE continued to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and IE11 remained installed and available on most versions of Windows 10 even after security updates for the browser ended in June 2022. It ends today as Microsoft support documentation says that Microsoft’s Edge browser update will completely disable Internet Explorer on most versions of Windows 10, redirecting users to Edge.

Edge will “automatically”transfer bookmarks and other browsing data from IE and display a dialog telling users what happened so that the last few people who use Internet Explorer out of habit, ignorance or spite are fully aware of what’s going on. If you click on any IE icon or try to launch it from the Start or Run menu, Edge will automatically open instead.

Microsoft never shipped any version of Internet Explorer with Windows 11, so nothing will change if you’re already running the latest version of Microsoft’s OS.

Internet Explorer still has a few minor deaths. According to a Microsoft support document, “visual links”to the app will remain in Windows 10 until they are removed by a security update around June 2023. And Internet Explorer will remain available on Windows Server, non-consumer versions of Windows 10 such as Windows 10 IoT and Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) versions of Windows 10 Enterprise, and on Windows 7 and 8 (which are no longer supported with new security updates or releases). Edge for the last month).

And the underlying MSHTML rendering engine will continue to be included as part of Microsoft Edge’s IE compatibility mode, which will be supported “until at least 2029.”Microsoft says it will warn users a year before IE mode is dropped, so it could be almost a decade before the zombified corpse of Internet Explorer finally stops twitching.

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