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0 pointsgruez4y ago0 comments

>it's still maintained security-wise (and will be forever, as per MS),

Source? According to microsoft:

>Please note that the Internet Explorer (IE) 11 desktop application will end support for certain operating systems starting June 15, 2022

>Customers are encouraged to move to Microsoft Edge with IE mode. IE mode enables backward compatibility and will be supported through at least 2029. Additionally, Microsoft will provide notice one year prior to retiring IE mode.

Your best bet right now for IE 11 is an installation of windows server 2022, which contains IE 11 and will be supported till Oct 14, 2031. Still, it's unknown whether IE 11 would be supported by then.

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zamadatix4y ago

A lot of confusion between various comments so far so this is my attempt to re-baseline:

- Chakra is the JavaScript engine in I.E. 11 (and later forked for the old MS Edge), Trident (MSHTML) was the browser engine (forked into EdgeHTML for the old MS Edge).

- The I.E. 11 desktop application is just that, the desktop application. It is not all of I.E. 11 or it's engines, the rest of which are still in Windows 11 even.

- I.E. mode is the first party way to access the remaining portions of I.E. 11 via the current Chromium Edge, this is what allowed them to sunset the I.E. desktop application.

All that said I don't particularly buy this as being particularly more secure. Sure, it's only getting security fixes but that doesn't inherently mean it is more secure or getting more security fixes than modern solutions. It could just be becoming an outdated security architecture that is only patched often enough to keep the minute userbase happy enough.

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