The Harlow Report-GIS
2023 Edition
ISSN 0742-468X
Since 1978
On-line Since 2000
first published week of: 03/06/2023
Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer From Your PC
by Boone Ashworth
Microsoft's Internet Explorer deserved to die. Or at least to be put out of its misery.
The 27-year-old browser has long been bogged down by performance and security problems, and Microsoft has fully moved on to its Edge browser. (While nearly everyone else has moved on to Google Chrome.)
Microsoft officially murdered the beleaguered IE last year, though its ghostly presence still lingers on Windows PCs around the world. In an effort to scrape up the remains, Microsoft has now begun automatically removing instances of Internet Explorer from users’ computers. A software update to the Edge browser that began rolling out this week will permanently disable Internet Explorer 11 on any Windows computer that still has it installed.
Read full story at Wired…