Microsoft is Breaking Up with Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10

That being said for those of you out there who are still using Internet Explorer, you might want to consider upgrading because Microsoft has announced that they will be ending support for older builds of Internet Explorer next Tuesday, the 12th of January. It will no longer provide support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10 from January 12.

The Next Web added in a report that Microsoft’s IE 11 is the last version of Microsoft’s pre-Edge browsers that will be supported. For your own safety, we recommend either updating or trying another web browser entirely, such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

Put another way, if consumers don’t have automatic updates switched on by default on their PCs, then their browsers will be that little bit more vulnerable until they do hit the upgrade button, Microsoft said.

Anyone running an older version of Internet Explorer is advised to take action and upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 (or Microsoft Edge).

This is vaguely reminiscent of the Browser Choice screen that Microsoft was forced to introduce sever years ago, and it will be interesting to see how effective the nagging is at getting people to move towards the most recent versions of Microsoft’s web browsers. The Enterprise Mode allows administrators to configure IE 11 to switch to a compatibility mode emulating IE 8, 9 and 10 for a specified list of websites. However this does not mean that the browser will stop working complete.