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Although I "kind of" like the latest IE, I think it should be killed. Start from scratch, kill the legacy support and move on! Yes it will cost money for enterprises to update their legacy systems, but a new start would be better!
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Just so you know how it works in real life:
MS killed legacy support for XP, and IE8. No way to go beyond IE8 without paying to update 400 systems where I work + all the software that would be broken.
Result? They're moving on to FireFox. Moreover, as more of the software is now browser based, it won't be long before any O/S will due, so long as a compliant browser is available.
So - dropping legacy support not only installs confidence in users, especially the big ones with much money invested, but drives people to find alternatives.
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Moving to FireFox just tells me that your organisation has someone high up in your organisation that is for open source. Management decisions are based on a good story, or copying their peers, rather than any real analysis.
In 1995 Netscape's Marc Andreessen claimed that Netscape would reduce Windows to a “poorly debugged set of device drivers”. (I am an old git) Twenty years later browser have nowhere near the capabilities of Windows. HTML 5 was a big step forward but it took a long time. The problem is getting agreement and the basic technology is brain damaged (HTML + javascript).
I don't see Windows going away soon despite Microsoft's amazing incompetence.
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IE is still important. I remember this every time I see non-IT people using their Windows computers opening the browser that came with the OS. If IE isn't more secure or displaying all of the latest web technologies, then lots of our work will go to waste.
Hogan
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IE name has inherited bad reputation, no matter how Microsoft improves IE, the perception of people is hard to change.
It is better to come up with a new product and build it from scratch than spending any energy on IE.
Make it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Totally Agree 
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Someone please tell me!
Life is too shor
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LOL! TOUCHÉ 
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Those lazy workstation admins are the problem, not keeping their software up to date. That doesn't mean Microsoft isn't to blame for the bad quality of the IE, they just had to follow all the specs of HTML, XHTML, XHTML, CSS and so on... and everything would have been fine. But no, they had to make their own implementation of the specs and changed everything that was over their head, probably.
Everything else is actually fine, except for a few missing features and some minor garbage.
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IE is a Browser. It is meant to render HTML and CSS, and run JavaScript.
Unfortunately, this browser don't understand HTML 5 and CSS 3 completely and responds quite slow while running JavaScript.
In the JavaScript centric applications world, Frameworks has evolved but this browser could not grow up and is still a kid.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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I wouldn't blame the workstation admins, or otherwise you would have the same problems with Firefox and Chrome. (to be clear, I'm not an admin myself - I'm a developer).
They are 3 main areas where IE is behind:
- support for official specs
- performance: IE JavaScript engine is much slower than Chrome's JavaScrpt engine for instance
- developer tools: again, Firefox or Chrome developer tools are much better. Even in IE11, when inpecting the DOM, it doesn't refresh if an element is updated with JavaScript - what's the point to inspect the DOM then?
The good news is that Windows 10 will come with a new browser (codenamed Spartan), although it's is still going to use Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine and Microsoft's Trident rendering engine (not WebKit). So, let' see....
Alex Sanseau
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Yes, it's not just the admins, i never stated anything different. But it is telling, that we had to fight with the problems of 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x of IE while version 9.x was already out and did at least some things better than their predecessor.
Some official and in-official stats showed clearly that mostly enterprises didn't update to the latest version, or never version. It's 2015, and i still have IE 5.x in the stats of the websites i'm counseling.
Also i think admins that install Chrome, Firefox and so on, have a completely different mentality, when it comes to updates. But that just theories.
All in all, from a consumer perspective, IE isn't that bad. And that is all Microsoft was always caring about. For us dev's it's a freaking nightmare and i don't think that will ever change.
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ignorance or indifference? I don't know and I don't care.
I am not developing web, so I don't really have any problem with IE. I personally use it in combination with Firefox and Chrome, depending on what I want to visit.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, I know what you mean. I never use ie for watching movies with hot pretty women.
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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That's exactly what the problem is. Why the need to use different browsers? Do you use one TV for the BBC and a different TV for Channel 4?
Alex Sanseau
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One thing that Microsoft team needs to understand is that Internet Explorer is helpfull, just to download some other better Internet explorer (a software to explore the internet, not the Internet ExplorerTM). Anyways, Internet Explorer is also a good explorer; no pun intended.
There are a lot of news in the market, that Spartan is coming with Windows 10[^] and it will do this and it will do that, I mean, what did Internet Explorer didn't do? Internet Explorer gave us a lot of opportunities to shape our designing skills, and to understand CSS and JavaScript better, best of all, it gave us the Twitter Bootstrap, Kudos for Internet Explorer from my side.
Finally, yes Spartan is coming, and it will replace the Internet Explorer as the default browser, but the fact that we, now, need to understand - and fathom - is that Internet Explorer is not going anywhere. Internet Explorer will still be there, as a back compatible version, for websites and other stuff. For this, you can read this qoute from the link I attached a few lines above.
Quote: Microsoft will continue to include Internet Explorer in Windows 10, and we understand this will be primarily for legacy compatibility reasons. Spartan is the main browser in Windows 10, and most users will be accessing the web using it.
Good luck for designers, good luck for developers!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Uninstall Chrome! try it run fiddler you'll see what I mean.
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I use Opera, Firefox, Safari and I like IE, its just simple. And all those people whining about slow speed, I never had any slow speed problem. In fact I saw more problems in other browsers than IE.
People are like chain, one dislike, rest of them follows.
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You might not have compared running scripts in browsers.
If you didn't encounter problem with IE, then, you are very lucky.
We as a developer have very hard time running complex javascripts in IE. Specially till IE 9.
IE 9 above is at least OK but far behind. Unfortunately, some clients still uses IE 7 and 8.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Facebook is completely generated by scripts, never have problem on IE.
Anurag Gandhi wrote: Unfortunately, some clients still uses IE 7 and 8.
It is those clients fault, not IE. They are suppose to update and use newest possible version.
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Facebook might have problem developing scripts for IE. 
That what I too faced developing client side scripts for IE (specially IE 8).
It was quite slow and I had to optimize a lot to make it smooth in IE 8.
Users won't know much difference unless he will measure render time.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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If you are going to support wide range of users, then you have to do extra work. As a developer, to make an awesome application, extra work is always required. It is not IE fault, look at its versions release dates. IE 8 was released in 2009, and you are developing a website in 2014 or 15, how do you suppose it should still understand the current technology if its not updated to newer version.
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IE has so much negative baggage it has built up over the years is best to retire it and start fresh with something new.
think of it like Notepad and Wordpad that both come with Windows. IE can be the Notepad version of the browser that comes with windows.
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