Internet Explorer began life in 1995 with the launch of Windows 95 Plus!, and has faded from prominence since then to the point where only around a single percent of desktops were using it the year prior to its end-of-life last June. This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week.Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build.
Microsoft closes another door to attackers by blocking Excel XLL files from the internet.Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule.IE's platform is still used to drive IE mode, Microsoft said, and that feature would remain in support until at least 2029, meaning a bit of IE will still live on, too. Microsoft said that two elements of Internet Explorer were remaining in support after Valentine's Day: IE mode in Edge for backwards website compatibility, and the IE platform, in which Microsoft includes its proprietary Trident/MSHTML browser engine and WebOC and COM automation. Instead, said Redmond, "this evolution makes way for new Viva capabilities powered by Viva Engage and will streamline features, resources, training, documentation, and support for customers." IE is gone, but its platform isn't Viva is an employee engagement platform that Microsoft added to Teams in 2021 to boost quality-of-work-life for remote employees, and Viva Engage is seen as a sensible addition to Viva's features, Microsoft said.īeginning in March, the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer mobile for iOS and Android will be updated to change their branding, but Microsoft insisted there will be no loss in continuity for businesses using Yammer, as well as "no changes to the features, capabilities, and investments for Microsoft 365 customers." Speaking of dead Microsoft products, Redmond announced yesterday that it was killing its Yammer brand of enterprise social networking software, but not the app itself: It's simply getting a name change as part of its merger into Microsoft Viva under the name Microsoft Viva Engage.
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