Microsoft will stop supporting older versions of Internet Explorer

For many years, the number of users getting stuck on old versions of Internet Explorer has been a headache for developers web and for Microsoft itself. That's why we understand today's announcement that will stop supporting any version of Internet Explorer other than the latest available for each operating system, thus hoping that users will be forced to upgrade.

This means that Windows 7 SP1 users will need to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11, while Windows Vista SP2 users will have to install Internet Explorer 9 (later versions of IE cannot be installed on Windows Vista).Windows 8.1 users do not need to do anything, as the system already comes with the latest version of Internet Explorer pre-installed. All versions of Internet Explorer prior to that, on each operating system, will stop receiving technical support and security updates as of January 12, 2016

Of course, that means that if any new version of Internet Explorer comes out between then and then, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will have to upgrade to it as well.

With this policy change, coupled with the implementation of automatic updates a couple of years ago, Microsoft hopes to be able to reduce fragmentation in the use of Internet Explorer, and make the transition period from one version to another more similar to that of Chrome or Firefox.

This would certainly greatly benefit all web developers, who would no longer have to test and adapt their sites for different versions of the Internet Explorer, with different support of web standards, but they would only have to keep in mind the latest version of each browser.

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But of course, this measure also has certain problems, mainly for corporate clients who sometimes use web applications designed for older versions of IE, and that could have incompatibilities with Internet Explorer 11. To cover these cases, Microsoft released last April the Enterprise Mode>"

Do you think this measure will accelerate the rate of adoption of the new versions of Internet Explorer?

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