IE11 的淘汰計畫

微軟宣佈了淘汰 IE11 的計畫:「The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge」。

標題上方的說明先把重點提出來了:

The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022

不過要注意,Windows 10 LTSC 與 server 版的日期不在這次公告的範圍:

Note: This retirement does not affect in-market Windows 10 LTSC or Server Internet Explorer 11 desktop applications. It also does not affect the MSHTML (Trident) engine. For a full list of what is in scope for this announcement, and for other technical questions, please see our FAQ.

FAQ 裡面看起來 Windows 10 LTSC 與 Server 版應該會照著本身作業系統的維護週期走。

另外在文章裡也有提到 Microsoft 365 產品線只支援到今年八月 17 日 (文字部份出自維基百科的「Internet Explorer 11」):

On August 17, 2020, Microsoft published a timeline indicating that the Microsoft Teams product will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 on November 30, 2020, and Microsoft 365 products will end Internet Explorer 11 support on August 17, 2021.

對一般使用上影響應該不會太大,因為目前市占率的關係,一般網站使用 Chromium 為底的瀏覽器應該都會動,主要的影響應該是遇到一些古董系統,一定得用 IE 才能使用。

微軟透過 Windows Update 強制安裝新版 Edge

前幾天在虛擬機內的 Windows 突然被裝了新版的 Edge,發現國外也有報導出來了:「With Edge, Microsoft’s forced Windows updates just sank to a new low」。

這次是 Windows Update 推進來的,即使在 Windows 7 上已經 EoL (2020/01/14),不會有任何安全性更新,微軟也是濫用透過這個方式推進來:

這種方式也都讓大家想到與 antitrust 的關係:

It all immediately made me think: what would the antitrust enforcers of the ‘90s, who punished Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, think about this modern abuse of Microsoft’s platform?

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