Bye Internet Explorer

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…

Internet Explorer End Of Life

The information in the article below is outdated: I posted an update on this article

A short note (to myself), because the information is shattered:

Internet Explorer 11 is the only version of Internet Explorer to be supported after April 11th this year. Until then IE9 might still be running supported on machines on Microsoft Extended Support program.

The facts:

• Windows versions 7, 8 and 10 all support IE11
• Microsoft only supports the latest version of IE available on supported OS's
• Vista is the only OS that is still supported that doesn't support IE11, support that will end 11th of April, 2017

Should we worry?

According to the [Wikipedia usage stats](https://analytics.wi…