Internet Explorer to be ‘permanently disabled’ on Windows 10 next week

Microsoft will completely disable the out-of-support Web Explorer 11 (IE 11) desktop app on Home windows 10 with an upcoming Microsoft Edge replace.

In an update to a FAQ page about retiring IE 11, Microsoft detailed the upcoming finish of the ageing internet browser. A Microsoft Ege replace approaching February 14th, 2023 will completely disable IE 11 on most variations of Home windows 10. Nonetheless, it’ll stay accessible on some variations of Home windows (together with Home windows 8.1, Home windows 7 Prolonged Safety Updates, sure long-term servicing channel (LTSC) variations of Home windows 10, and extra).

A Home windows safety replace scheduled for June thirteenth, 2023, will take away IE 11 visible references, such because the Begin Menu and taskbar icons, from Home windows.

Microsoft extremely recommends customers arrange IE mode within the Edge browser forward of February 14th to keep away from any points or disruptions.

That is the newest within the lengthy, gradual dying of Web Explorer. In Could 2021, the corporate announced plans to kill IE 11 on Windows 10 the next month. Then in June 2021, the corporate introduced Home windows 11 and published a list of features that would be removed within the soar from Home windows 10 to 11, which included IE 11.

Nonetheless, almost a 12 months later, somebody discovered a method to bypass settings and actually launch IE 11 on Windows 11. Regardless of Microsoft’s finest efforts, Web Explorer lives on.

Supply: Microsoft