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josh_assad
Copper Contributor
Apr 09, 2019

What is the transition plan from old Edge to Chromium Edge?

This might be a bit early, but what's the roll-out plan for Edge-Chromium when it's ready for General Availability?  I assume that we'll have to support two version of Edge (current, and Chromium) fo...
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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Apr 09, 2019
We will not roll out the new version of Edge until it is fully ready, until then we will still ask most users to stay on the current version of Edge that comes with Windows 10. This is a great question, josh_assad.
Elliot
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CodeDJ
Iron Contributor
Apr 09, 2019

Elliot Kirk Please do something about IE. Having IE + Old Edge + New Edge will be too much for most users.

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    Phillip Frabott
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 10, 2019

    CodeDJ We stopped supporting IE 2 years ago. Any user that comes to our website from IE gets an IE not supported page and cannot proceed beyond that point. We check the agent header and if we detect Windows 10 we recommend they use Edge. Otherwise, we suggest Firefox to them.

     

    I thought support for IE has been end of life for a while now. Surprised people would still support it except on older legacy sites that are no longer maintained.

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      josh_assad
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 10, 2019

      Phillip Frabott 
      From https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support: "Internet Explorer 11 is the last version of Internet Explorer, and will continue to receive security updates, compatibility fixes, and technical support on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10."

      Many of our clients who move a little slower to adopt point at the above and use the Windows 10 End of Life date as the end of IE11 support.  Windows 10 is scheduled to end in October 14, 2025.  We don't plan to support IE11 for that long, but we currently still have to support it, and ending that support is a major change management exercise.

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        Phillip Frabott
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 10, 2019

        josh_assad 

         

        Sounds good. I thought Microsoft has IE on the EOL list back at the beginning of 2016. We had a hard stop date at work of October 2017. I don't find very many sites that are usable anymore with IE so it furthered my thought that it was EOL. If thats the case, then I would assume the same 2025 support date would be required for Old Edge support as well.

  • Elliot Kirk's avatar
    Elliot Kirk
    Former Employee
    Apr 09, 2019
    I can understand the frustration about needing to support all these different browsers. I will make sure this feedback gets to the right ears.
    Elliot

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