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I'm sharing this information for people who are still using Internet Explorer. I gave it up about a year ago and don't regret it. Apologies for the > sign at the beginning of each line. I used to know a command which would get rid of them all at once but can't remember.
Dan
Internet Explorer, warns Microsoft's own security chief From the
Telegraph ...Stop using Internet Explorer, warns Microsoft's own
security chief By Hasan Chowdhury|Feb. 8th, 2019
Microsoft's own security
chief has warned millions of people who continue to use Internet
Explorer as a default web browser are placing themselves in "peril".
The company, which first developed Internet Explorer in 1995, is no
longer supporting new development for the web browser. Continued use
of the software was potentially risky, according to Chris Jackson,
Microsoft’s worldwide lead for cyber security.
Internet Explorer has
increasingly fallen out of favour for both users and developers amid
the rise of alternatives like Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari, which
have grabbed an increasing share of the web browser market.
Google Chrome overtook
Internet Explorer as
the world's most
popular web browser
in 2016.
Microsoft has been looking at
new business ventures in its bid to reinvent itself and compete with
Silicon Valley's incumbents. In November, Microsoft briefly overtook
Apple as the world's most valuable publicly-listed company as
investors have gained confidence in its push into cloud computing.
“We’re
not supporting new web standards for it and, while many sites work
fine, developers by and large just aren’t testing for Internet
Explorer these days,”
Mr Jackson said.
Microsoft
has in recent years encouraged users to adopt its more modern web
browser, the Microsoft Edge, which was released in 2015.
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