Microsoft has reminded Home windows clients at the moment that they will lastly retire the Web Explorer 11 net browser from some Home windows 10 variations in June and change it with the brand new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge.
After Web Explorer is retired, Microsoft will nonetheless help legacy Web Explorer-based web sites and purposes inside Microsoft Edge by way of the built-in Web Explorer mode (IE mode) characteristic.
“As beforehand introduced, the way forward for Web Explorer on Home windows is in Microsoft Edge,” Microsoft stated in an announcement revealed on Wednesday.
“The Web Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop utility can be retired on June 15, 2022, for sure variations of Home windows 10.”
After being retired on June 15, 2022, the Web Explorer desktop utility can be disabled and out of help, routinely redirecting the customers to Microsoft Edge when launched.
The IE11 retirement impacts Web Explorer 11 desktop apps delivered by way of the Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) to methods working Home windows 10 consumer SKUs (model 20H2 and later) and Home windows 10 IoT (model 20H2 and later).
To allow IE mode in Microsoft Edge, you need to go to edge://settings/defaultbrowser, toggle on ‘Enable websites to be reloaded in Web Explorer,‘ and restart the online browser.
You may study extra about IE mode and how you can deploy and transition to the brand new Microsoft Edge by studying this Getting Began information.
Microsoft first introduced plans to ditch help for Web Explorer 11 net browsers in Home windows 10 and Microsoft 365 in August 2020.
Following the preliminary announcement, Microsoft discontinued IE help in Groups on November 30, 2020.
Microsoft additionally ended help for Web Explorer throughout Microsoft 365 apps and companies on August 17, 2021. Since then, these nonetheless attempting to connect with Microsoft 365 could face connection failures and degraded consumer expertise.
In associated information, WordPress, presently the preferred running a blog platform, additionally introduced in March 2021 plans to drop help for Web Explorer 11, on condition that the browser’s utilization dipped under 1%.