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Internet Explorer Takes Another Step Closer to Death!
Internet Explorer has been experiencing its death rattle for more than a few years now. And death rattle is an appropriate term as while it has been on the verge of dying for years Microsoft has always seemed a little reluctant to finally pull the plug on its once near-total…
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Internet Explorer is Nearly Dead But Microsoft Might Finish the Job on Feb 14th!
Back in the Summer Microsoft officially announced that support for Internet Explorer had concluded and the browser was now officially in its ‘end-of-life’. – Yep, it had certainly been a pretty (well, mostly) solid 27 years worth of performance, but all good things must come to an end, and, in…
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Internet Explorer’s Death Gets ‘Commemorated’ With Tombstone!
On June 15th (last week for those of you without a calendar), one of the most iconic pieces of internet history died. – Yes, following the expiration of its official Microsoft support, the once widely-used browser, Internet Explorer, expired. What did this mean? Well, while it still clearly runs, the…
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Internet Explorer Has Officially Died! – A Brief Obituary!
Initially released back in 1995, Internet Explorer was, for many people, their first gateway into the online world. – This was, of course, back in the day where having a browser wasn’t a particularly common thing. If you didn’t have an internet connection, after all, you clearly didn’t need a…
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Microsoft Confirms Internet Explorer Will Die Next Year
I think it’s pretty safe to say that very few people still actively use Internet Explorer 11. In fact, it’s been pretty much redundant since the initial launch of Edge back in 2015. And by the time that did release as the semi-replacement, Google Chrome already had sewn up the…
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Microsoft Details the End of Flash Support for Edge
All good things must, sooner or later, come to an end. When it was announced back in 2017 that the vast majority of mainstream browsers would stop supporting ‘Flash‘, however, it must admit that it gave me more than a few nostalgic pangs of pain. Most of which, I freely…
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Microsoft Confirms End-Of-Life for Internet Explorer & Edge Legacy
With the relatively recent launch of Microsoft’s new (and excellent) Chromium-based Edge, it seemed that the writing was always on the wall for their older versions of web browsers, such as Internet Explorer or even the original version of Edge, to come to an end. Well, following an official post…
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Microsoft to fix Actively Exploited Internet Explorer Security Flaw
Now, the chances are that the vast majority of you reading this probably don’t use Internet Explorer. With around 80% of us using Google Chrome, the remaining 20% is largely split between Edge, Opera, Firefox, etc. with only a tiny portion still using the ‘classic’ Microsoft browser. Admittedly, the browser…
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Microsoft Confirms Huge Internet Explorer Security Exploit
So, I’m going to start by stating the obvious as its something you probably already said to yourself as you read the title. Who is still using Internet Explorer, right? – Well, despite there being a number of much better alternatives around these days (such as Google Chrome, Firefox or…
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Stop Using Internet Explorer Warns Microsoft
Stop Using Internet Explorer Yes, we know that Edge gets the tough end of the stick quite often. However, let’s not forget how much more people ripped on the older Internet Explorer. Well, since it was replaced with Edge, Internet Explorer hasn’t gotten better with age. It’s a technical nightmare…
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Internet Explorer Fix May Cause Lenovo Laptop Issues
Internet Explorer At the time of writing, the user figures for Internet Explorer are pretty bad. How bad? Well, depending on which source you believe, it is thought that less than 4% of people are currently using the browser. It was, however, revealed last week that a day one issue…
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Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch To Fix Day One IE Issue
Emergency Patch For Internet Explorer How the mighty have fallen! Despite Microsoft’s browser dominance with Internet Explorer, the last 5 years have seen a pretty significant change in the market. With Google’s Chrome Browser pretty much blowing it out the water, it has forced Microsoft to look to focus on…
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Microsoft Giving Up On Edge With Plans For Chromium Browser
Microsoft Giving Up On Edge With the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft really tried to push forward their Edge browser. Regularly prompting us, when we went to install an alternative, that it was faster and better for our battery life, the vast majority of us didn’t care. On the whole,…
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Windows 10 Performs U-Turn On Browser Warning
Windows 10 Performs U-Turn On Browser Warning Despite Microsoft trying to push it quite hard within the Windows 10 platform, the Edge browser is not a success. With some reports suggest that the user base may be as low as 2%, Microsoft are clearly quite keen to look to see how…
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Firefox 61 Tries To Be Faster By Guessing What You Want To Do
Firefox 61 Launches With Smart Features Attempting To Improve Speed I think it’s reasonably fair to say that most of us, at one point or another might have tried Firefox as an alternative web-browser. I think it’s also reasonably safe to say that the majority of us no longer are.…
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