![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, to whatever degree you actually have true support, in other words, you can call up or write in or use a forum for Internet Explorer help that will no longer be there. The other issue is that literally they will not support it. In other words, continuing to use those versions of the browsers could be put you at higher risk of malware. So that’s the fundamental, that’s the most important issue is that if a bug is found, and if that bug happens to be a security vulnerability or provide some kind of vulnerability into the browser that could be misused, then that bug will not be fixed. It’s the discovery of that bug that’s important because discovering it means then that hackers and others could potentially exploit the new knowledge of that failure in order to do something malicious with those versions of the browsers. If there is a bug that would be found later it’s probably something that’s already there and has been there all along. Now it’s important to realize that the bug’s discovery is what we’re triggering on here. Where it becomes important is if that bug turns out to be a security vulnerability. Now, for most bugs that’s not a big deal. Well, what then does “supported” really mean? All “end of support” really means is fundamentally two things: the most important thing is that if a bug is found in these older versions of Internet Explorer, it will not be fixed. The problem is, and what’s actually motivated me to take this as the topic this week are some headlines that I’ve seen related to the impending end of support for these older versions of IE that seem to imply that the browsers will actually stop working on Tuesday and that’s simply not the case. So what does that mean? Well, one thing I can tell you that it doesn’t mean is that somehow these older versions of the browser are going to stop working. In other words, Internet Explorer version 11 will be the only formally supported version of Internet Explorer after the 12th. The big news that came out this week (I don’t know if I want to call it “big” news) but the news that came out this week was a reminder that Microsoft would be ending support for versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 11. So, does end of support mean end of life? Hi, everyone.
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