the amount of shitty little training websites, software portals (alot of hotels use a system that Oracle used to sell for bookings etc & it needs to be run through a IE frontend as the new version they made is a cloud based security hole riddled nightmare so a lot of organisations won't move to it), etc, that need old versions of HTML & ancient protocols like SSL 1.0 that are now only supported by IE is crazy.
This will also likely cause a lot of old websites to just be non functioning & inaccessible, essentially shrinking the internet down even further to a blasted landscape of Twitter weirdos & Redditors locked in a forever war.
Just to add to this non-PL, my previous employer still had internal apps that would only work on IE. In 2019.
As an added bonus, employees needed to apply through their line manager to have access to Chrome right up until 2018, when the company finally rolled Chrome out to all company PCs by default. I'm sure if I went back to my old office today, in the unlikely event that were no more IE-based apps in use, many of the boomers in my former office would still be using IE despite having had Chrome as an option for the last two years.
My mechanic was telling me about how a lot of the tablets and devices they use on cars will just straight up boot up a program in IE to diagnose a problem or to pull up the service manual. I wonder how that's going to effect them. The new tools usually run on android but I imagine they're gonna lose access to a lot of those tools.
There are a lot of internal government web-based apps and such that STILL only work on IE. It's going to be a clusterfuck.
I only have one word for all of this.
The Corporate World is fucking retarded when it comes to technology. They will have fuckin panic attacks about "safety/security", gate people from doing even basic shit they NEED to do on computers as if they were fucking zoo animals, force people to memorize shit like HIPAA, and take mandatory retarded (and boring as fuck) tests about "safety/security".
MEANWHILE, the operating systems they use are fucked. Either they upgraded to 10, which spies on every fucking thing you do including what you type on your keyboard, making things like HIPAA not fucking matter because personal information was technically NEVER secure to begin with, or they keep Windows 7 (NOT on a VM mind you), and run the risk of being ass-fucked by anything internet related since Microsoft dropped support for it years ago, and as any retro PC gamer will tell you, if you're going to run old WinOS like XP and the like, you should NEVER EVER connect that machine to the internet unless you want instant aids.
Their business models for proprietary web-based software is also fucked. Internet Explorer is one of the least secure web browsers, not only sending the shit you go on to Microsoft, but it also tracks your physical location, so again, TECHNICALLY, personal/private data is not completely protected. Keep in mind that with most employees (ESPECIALLY boomers), IE is the ONLY browser they use, so they are also using that shit to browse their personal links on the side, and majority of those personal links are spyware-riddled ad-filled java-based bullshit, which can cause major problems like slow-downs and even computer freezes. Shit like that should be on a browser that has blocker addons to prevent that shit from happening.
Corporate needs to wake the fuck up and realize that it can't sustain itself by doing shit that worked decades ago. Times have changed. Software has changed. Operating systems have changed. Relying on shit like "licensing fees" and such is shit that's not only costly, but archaic. There are far better alternatives that actually do give a shit about "safety/security" that don't require jumping through hoops or shilling out monthly/yearly costs. Corporate needs to stop shitting it's diapers, put it's big-boy pants on, and take these changes head-on, and if they can't do that, then they are beyond fucked.
