There are dates that are marked in history, and as far as the internet is concerned, June 15, 2022 is one of them. Today, after 27 years, Internet Explorer disappears, a pioneer browser in network access. Microsoft disables the desktop version of the browser and redirects its users to Edge, released in 2015.
Born in 1995, Internet Explorer arrived in a primitive technological context. In fact, in order to use it, it had to be installed using a CD. Its dominance was uncontested for years until the arrival of Firefox and Google Chrome, which stole a significant market share from it.
Microsoft made this decision some time ago, arguing that web developers were finding themselves less likely to make pages compatible with the browser. The company also defends that Edge is much more secure and modern than its predecessor, and that it does allow that long-awaited compatibility with old and inherited websites and applications from other programs.
For his farewell, the company has been clear that this decision had to be made “after years of trying to address the incompatibilities that arose with different websites, including some of the most popular on the Internet.” The company ultimately decided that continuing to differentiate itself from Chrome with a single proprietary web platform was “no longer possible.”
The company has already ended support for Internet Explorer in Teams in 2020 and announced plans to end support for Internet Explorer 11 in web browsers on Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 in August 2020.
What to do if you have to carry out an online procedure using Internet Explorer starting today?
At the private level, many companies had already made the leap, however At the public level, the administration continues to take into account Internet Explorer, which ceases to exist today. And all because the vast majority of administrations and public institutions still have not updated their systems and depend on the old Microsoft browser for some procedures.
A couple of examples are the electronic registration of documents in Congress or the website of the General State Signature Portfolio service. These -and others- only occasionally support minority browsers, their user guides are based on IE or they maintain access portals dedicated to this browser which can lead to some other problem to carry out a management.
Despite this, Microsoft offers a solution: Edge’s Internet Explorer mode that helps you interact with a website in the same way as the now defunct Internet Explorer 11. To enable it, you have to open the Edge browser; go to the menu of the three points in the upper right corner; setting; type “internet explorer” as search; in the option “Allow sites to reload in Internet Explorer mode” make a change from Default to Allow; restart the browser; click on the three dots menu and select Reload in Internet Explorer mode.
Today an era ends and the technological cemetery adds a new (and outstanding) victim.
