
There’s also FastTrack, available at no extra charge to customers with 150 or more paid seats of Windows 10. If you have Microsoft Unified Support, you can reach out to that support service for help with the transition. What if I need help with setting up Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer mode? Making sure that modern web applications are compatible with outdated browsers is a major pain.This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later.

Though some of these users might be irked, web developers around the world will likely jump for joy. ( Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are also good options, of course.)Īlmost 340 million people around the world run a version of Internet Explorer that is about to lose technical support, according to Computer World. If you are an Internet Explorer user, you might want to consider upgrading to Edge anyway, as it's got a brand new engine that makes it faster than IE and comes with some nifty new features like a "Reading View" that strips online articles of all the ads and fluff that usually cram the screen. Internet Explorer 11 will continue to receive updates and technical support for the foreseeable future, but it seems like this is a move by Microsoft to ultimately encourage Internet Explorer users to upgrade to Edge, their new browser released alongside Windows 10.

Now, Microsoft is more or less making it mandatory.

This means that these version of the Internet Explorer browser will not receive security updates, putting them at high risk for viruses and malware. If you are still using IE 8, 9, or 10, you probably should have upgraded a long time ago. Microsoft is ending its technical support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 on January 12.
