There are some really retrograde government and bigcorps, running ten year old infrastructure. And if that is your customer-base? You do it. Plus I worked on a consumer launch site for something you might remember, and we got the late requirement for IE7 support, because that's what the executives in Japan had. No customers cared, but yeah it worked in IE7.
Oh, certainly, corporations run ten-year-old software. But for the record, IE 11 turns 13 this year [1]. Which makes it somewhat more surprising to me.
I think anything still using ActiveX like stuff or "native" things. Sure, it should all be dead and gone, but some might not be and there is no path forward with any of that AFAIK.
Surely by this point someone has written a 0-day for MSIE 11 which gets root and silently installs an Internet Explorer skinned Chromium. If not, someone should get onto that. —Signed, everyone
There are some really retrograde government and bigcorps, running ten year old infrastructure. And if that is your customer-base? You do it. Plus I worked on a consumer launch site for something you might remember, and we got the late requirement for IE7 support, because that's what the executives in Japan had. No customers cared, but yeah it worked in IE7.
Oh, certainly, corporations run ten-year-old software. But for the record, IE 11 turns 13 this year [1]. Which makes it somewhat more surprising to me.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_11
Microsoft will support IE 11 until 2032.
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One of my clients in the past had, as of 2020, noticeable traffic from IE8, 9 and IE11. When I say noticeable I mean 10%+ out of million users.
It followed the 8-17 monday-friday pattern.
Essentially it was people at their work machines (posts, banks, etc) running corporate computers where modern browsers were not installed.
We had a computer for manually testing every release on IE8 and 9.
If somebody is looking for our products from those computers, we aren't gonna lose them.
But as far as I know, that client dropped support for IE8 and IE9 in 2024 with IE11 planned to be dropped this year.
Some corporate machines still run XP. Why upgrade what works?
SECURITY
Yet it would still run Windows Adware edition. =3
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I think anything still using ActiveX like stuff or "native" things. Sure, it should all be dead and gone, but some might not be and there is no path forward with any of that AFAIK.
Surely by this point someone has written a 0-day for MSIE 11 which gets root and silently installs an Internet Explorer skinned Chromium. If not, someone should get onto that. —Signed, everyone
Last available Chromium on XP has 0-days too, so not a big win.