bye bye I E

[space otter]

I know most of you guys will say 'it's about time.!" but some will say oh no..what will I do...lol

Microsoft is scrapping Internet Explorer

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/microsoft-is-scrapping-internet-explorer/ar-AA9ThZo?ocid=ansQuartz11

Quartz
Zach Wener-Fligner   9 hrs ago

The end is finally in sight for Microsoft's long-fraught Internet Explorer. At the Microsoft Convergence conference Monday in Atlanta, Chris Capossela, Microsoft's head of marketing, said the new flagship browser for Windows, which was announced in January and is codenamed Project Spartan, will not be associated with the Internet Explorer brand.

While Internet Explorer will still exist on Windows 10 for compatibility purposes, it will take a back seat to the new browser.

Microsoft has been working for years to salvage the Internet Explorer brand, which languished in the public eye thanks to releases like Internet Explorer 6, widely regarded as one of the worst tech products of all time. Releases over the last few years have fixed the product, but Microsoft has been unable to fix the browser's reputation, despite a solid ad campaign.

The browser's user share has suffered in recent years thanks to stiff competition from Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, and Apple's Safari browsers, and Dean Hachamovitch, the longtime manager of the Internet Explorer team, left the company in December. The announcement that Project Spartan won't be an Internet Explorer browser is Microsoft's ultimate admission of failure in its efforts to change Internet Explorer's image.

[zorgon]

FOREVER AGO...
Netscape Mozilla stomps IE



RECENTLTY...
Firefox Mozilla Eats IE



FINALY...
RIP IE

[ArMaP]

As far as I remember I think Firefox has always been less used than IE.

[WarToad]

My personal computer I use Fire Fox.  My work computer is IE.  Too many work applications dedicated to running in the IE browser.  Can't get rid of it, unfortunately.

[Somamech]

Microsoft have just "re-branded" their search/software technology to seem more hip

Having said that though, I use chrome, and may get back into Fire Ferret if they have fixed those issues they had..

[rdunk]

I use Apple Safari now, and the non-tracking duckduckgo.com search engine, but I never had any real problems with Explorer, in all of the years I used it. Of course i did have a few problems along the way with the various Microsoft Operating Systems!!  .....

[WarToad]

... may get back into Fire Ferret if they have fixed those issues they had..

What issues are those?  I've never had a problem with it.  No virus, mal-ware, nothing.  I just run spy-bot in the background and it's a clean machine.

[Ellirium113]

Internet Explorer will still be available for the advanced line of the new Windows 10. On the regular version they stripped it down, added a few things and called it "SPARTAN". 

Spartan, a new Microsoft browser that will use the Trident rendering engine and the Chakra JavaScript engine that are part of Internet Explorer, is not just another new IE release, sources told me a week or so ago. Spartan is expected to look and work more like lightweight browsers such as Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox, sources have said. It allegedly will support extensions, unlike IE.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-spartan-browser-more-details-leak/#!

[Pimander]

There is no Internet Explorer on Linux.  I can do everything a PC user would want.  The only thing you are likely to miss on Linux is Photoshop.  What you won't miss with Linux is viruses and paying for software.

[Just Looking]

I use Apple Safari now, and the non-tracking duckduckgo.com search engine, but I never had any real problems with Explorer, in all of the years I used it. Of course i did have a few problems along the way with the various Microsoft Operating Systems!!  .....

Another very private search engine is "Startpage", I use it with Firefox.

[burntheships]

I wont miss IE for sure....
Anyone know about future hope for updates on Safari for P.Cs?

[ArMaP]

Anyone know about future hope for updates on Safari for P.Cs?

As far as I know it has been discontinued some years ago.

[Glaucon]

IE actually gives quite a bit of user control...should the user take the time to utilize the options.

I like Opera and Chrome. I used to be an avid firefoxer, especially liked the ability to disable all Flash. But it always be tens I much memory.

I have one machine (Asus t100ta tablet)  running the Windows 10 (9926) early release. Its certainly not ready for the market 

[Glaucon]

^*always eats so much memory*

[ArMaP]

IE actually gives quite a bit of user control...should the user take the time to utilize the options.

Like Windows, most people don't know that Windows allows, for example, people to chose their own manager (I don't remember the right name for it) instead of explorer.exe, there are several alternatives.

I like Opera and Chrome. I used to be an avid firefoxer, especially liked the ability to disable all Flash. But it always be tens I much memory.

Opera has been my favourite for several years, but their change to a Chromium based browser removed several of the things I liked, like the notes.

I have one machine (Asus t100ta tablet)  running the Windows 10 (9926) early release. Its certainly not ready for the market 

I have it on a virtual machine.