Microsoft Edge Classic support ends on March 9, 2021
Microsoft will stop supporting its Microsoft Edge classic web browser in all supported versions of the company's Windows 10 operating system on March 9, 2021.
The company revealed its plans on its Tech Community site yesterday. It notes that the new Microsoft Edge is replacing classic Edge, and that millions of users have upgraded to the Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge already.
The new Microsoft Edge browser offers better web compatibility and standards support among other features.
The new Microsoft Edge web browser was released as a Stable browser earlier this year for Windows 10 but also other versions of Windows as well as non-Microsoft operating systems such as Mac OS X. A Linux version has been promised by Microsoft but it has not been released yet.
The classic Microsoft Edge web browser will receive security updates until March 9, 2021. The date falls on the March Patch Tuesday, and it will be the last time Microsoft will release security updates for the classic web browser.
The Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser may be offered to users via Windows Update but it can also be installed manually. Even unsupported Windows 7 systems may receive the browser via Windows Update.
Microsoft plans to include it as the default web browser on all Windows 10 versions starting with Windows 10 version 20H2 that is coming out in a few months.
It is unclear what is going to happen after the date though as Microsoft did not make it clear whether the version of legacy Edge will remain on the system or if it will be removed or disabled in some form.
Microsoft released deployment documentation for deploying the new Microsoft Edge browser in Enterprise environments.
Internet Explorer 11Â
In the same announcement, Microsoft published the timeline for ending Internet Explorer 11 support in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Teams will stop supporting IE11 on November 30, 2020, and one year from now, on August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 will stop supporting the classic Internet Explorer browser as well.
Internet Explorer mode, an option to run sites using Internet Explorer's rendering engine in Microsoft Edge, will not work either to connect to these services after support ends.
Microsoft notes that customers will either have a degraded experience or will be unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps or services using Internet Explorer 11.
This means that after the above dates, customers will have a degraded experience or will be unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services on IE 11. For degraded experiences, new Microsoft 365 features will not be available or certain features may cease to work when accessing the app or service via IE 11
The company states that it has no plans to drop Internet Explorer support entirely in Windows though.
Closing Words
In seven months, Microsoft Edge classic will not receive security updates or any other update anymore. Most Windows 10 systems will probably be migrated to the new Edge browser that is based on Chromium by then considering that any upcoming Windows 10 feature update will include the new browser as the default system browser.
Microsoft will continue to push the browser via Windows Update as well on Windows 10. Since it has not been released for older versions of Windows, it is only Windows 10 systems that are affected by Microsoft's decision.
Now You: New or old Edge, which do you prefer, and why?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.