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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be completely deleted from users’ devices at a time of their choosing, according to a decision made by Microsoft.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">This happened following the February 14th release of a Microsoft Edge upgrade, which caused IE11 to be disabled on some Windows 10 devices.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Additionally, it comes after earlier alerts from June and December 2022 that the legacy web browser would be permanently discontinued by a Windows upgrade.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">As long as they use the Disable IE policy, organizations will continue to be in charge of deciding whether to remove IE11 visual references from their devices, if they haven’t already.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><img alt="Microsoft allowing customers to choose when IE11 will be removed" src="http://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/imgs/20230525/More-info-on-the-discontinuation-of-Internet-Explorer-is-revealed-2.jpg" style="display:block; height:500px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:960px"><em>Microsoft allowing customers to choose when IE11 will be removed</em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">“Over the coming months, a subset of exceptional scenarios where IE11 is still accessible will be redirected to Edge, ensuring users access a supported and more secure Microsoft browser,” the company noted.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">With the May non-security preview release scheduled for May 23, Microsoft had previously intended to remove all IE11 visual references (including icons on the taskbar and the Start Menu).</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Users are being informed that “Microsoft Edge is the future of Internet Explorer” since the February 14 Edge update deleted IE11.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Internet Explorer is no longer supported and has been decommissioned.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><img alt="IE11 retirement alert" src="http://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/imgs/20230525/More-info-on-the-discontinuation-of-Internet-Explorer-is-revealed-1.jpg" style="display:block; height:500px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:960px"><em>IE11 retirement alert</em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">The discontinuation of IE11 support in Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 in August 2020 was initially announced by Microsoft.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Nearly a year later, in May 2021, the company finally issued an official retirement notice.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Starting in October 2020, when browsing incompatible websites, IE11 will launch Microsoft Edge automatically.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">7,604 web domains from a variety of online services, such as Google Drive, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, and Instagram, are included in the comprehensive list of incompatible websites.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">The legacy IE11 browser will continue to work with Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU), Windows 8.1, and all versions of Windows 10 client LTSC, and Windows 10 loT LTSC even though it no longer comes pre-installed with Windows 11 and has been officially retired from multiple Windows 10 versions on the semi-annual channel (SAC) servicing channel.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">For years, Microsoft has urged to transition to Microsoft Edge with IE mode since it allows backward compatibility and would be supported through at least 2029.</p>

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