It is easier said than done: "just stop supporting Internet Explorer (IE)". There are large organizations that require IE for some of their legacy often in-house applications. If you serve these organizations, you might be required to support IE. Even though, globally, roughly only 2% of the users still use this old browser.
For versions before IE the argument has been easy: "We don’t support a browser Microsoft is not supporting," but support for IE11 doesn’t seem to stop anytime soon (see the update below!): The latest IE (IE11)will be supported as long as the last version of Windows that supports it. That means untill support for the current version of Windows has ended.
With the launch of Edge, [Microsoft initially went along with popular demand not to bring support for older engines to their new browser Spartan](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/updates-from-the-project-spartan-developer-works…
- shared 20 Jan Web Development for Beginners (by Microsoft)
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