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by m_st 2599 days ago
Nice for them!

We launched a web application for construction companies in Switzerland a few months ago. And quickly learned the hard way that we have to improve the IE compatibility. The last 90 days IE11 was used for 36% of all traffic.

Too bad the new Edge isn't called IE12 and automatically deployed as a replacement through Windows Update :-)
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sbr464 2599 days ago
Part of the issue is the limited installation compatibility. You can't directly install Edge on Win7/8, also Server 2012, 2016, (used by some businesses as a terminal server or virtual desktop host. That has definitely slowed it's installation base.
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watermelon0 2599 days ago
Sadly, Edge is completely different from IE, and still cannot replace it in most cases. There are still too many public websites (e.g. online banking and other sites using digital signatures), and even more enterprise intranet sites, that require legacy ActiveX, Java applets, or Silverlight.

I'm fairly sure Microsoft is not fan of IE either, but they will still be stuck with it for many years. The most they can probably do, is to not have it installed by default in future versions of Windows 10, but I have a feeling that it will stick around for longer than IE6.

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trothamel 2599 days ago
Do you have examples of this? My sense is why this had been the case, it's been several years since I've encountered a site that doesn't work with some combination of the HTML5 web stack and flash.
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brianpgordon 2599 days ago
Is this still current?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-koreans-use-internet-exp...

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clairity 2599 days ago
as a way to support backwards-compatibility, microsoft plans to integrate IE into edge: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/coming-soon-to-chrom...
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gridlockd 2599 days ago
How many of those 36% would insist on using IE11 though? What would happen if you just forced them to use Chrome? Chrome might actually already be installed, just not preferred.
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