#Update ie 11 windows 7 update

So now despite more and more sites refusing to allow IE and forcing you to use other applications, we’re still forcing it as the default and telling users “just copy and paste the URL into Google Chrome” instead of actually fixing the fucking problem. Then management decided that was good enough and the policy was never pushed out company-wide despite now being in use for seven months with no issues whatsoever, and they just have us add people to the OU that has the fix whenever they complain about not being able to access the site in question. We then applied this GPO to a handful of the people who would need it in order to access the one site that only works in IE as a way to make sure it wouldn’t break anything.

#Update ie 11 windows 7 update

I was responsible for finding an implementing a fix for this in time to meet the cutoff for the IE end of life update seven months ago, which I managed to do (setting Edge as default and forcing the site in question to load in IE mode whenever it’s accessed, and enforcing these policies through a GPO). My work still relies on Internet Explorer for one specific application that only about ten percent of our staff even uses, but it’s only able to launch whatever the default web browser is, so we need to keep IE as the default web browser for the entire company for this one software. They had like 12 years from the time Steve Jobs announced that (Adobe) Flash was dead to its removal and some companies didn't do anything about it until 'hey, it doesn't work!' People I know in the education and training space have told me so many horror stories about educational publishers who just flat out ignored that Flash was going to be killed.and cheapskate school districts who wouldn't fork out however many millions the textbook publisher wanted for their crappy 'interactive' content when they did move on. And yes, there's still a lot of this crap kicking around in dark corners, quietly running equipment that costs millions to replace or generates millions a day.

Stir in ActiveX, Java applets and other messes and it's a toxic brew for sure.

That period from the late 90s to the early 2000s is particularly tough Microsoft had people convinced that the only way to write web apps was to use every one-off IE and IIS feature. I'm one of the weirdos who actually enjoys the challenge, but browser stuff is the worst.