Microsoft sets IE’s date with death — kind of

Microsoft has spelled out its plans to retire the venerable Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) browser from widespread use in a little over a year.

“The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” asserted Sean Lyndersay, an Edge program manager, asserted in a May 19 post to a company blog. “With Microsoft Edge capable of assuming this responsibility [of accessing IE-based sites and apps] … the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.”

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