"Any company in the UK that uses the BACS service by any means could be affected by this," explains Taylor. However, due to IE11 retiring, BACS has put measures in place to allow the functionality of their website and applications through other means. Edward Taylor, managing of Interbacs, a payments software vendor, explains that the BACS system has relied on IE to provide "full functionality of its website and application for many years". While Edge has an IE mode, these apps and sites might not work as expected.Īn example is the BACS payment scheme, used by businesses to send and take payments. Some businesses might use legacy apps or website that are only compatible with IE11. Today, we are at the next stage of that journey: we are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge." How will the IE11 end of life affect businesses? "Over the past year, you may have noticed our movement away from Internet Explorer (“IE”) support, such as an announcement of the end of IE support by Microsoft 365 online services. However, many legacy apps and websites still rely on IE11 and have yet to migrate over to Edge.ĭata, insights and analysis delivered to you View all newsletters By The Tech Monitor team Sign up to our newsletters Sign up here (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)īut how can IE11’s end-of-life affect businesses? Google Chrome has a 64% market share for global desktop browser, compared with IE11’s share of 0.32%, so in comparison it isn’t a popular browser. Businesses have been urged to prepare for IE11 end of life. If they haven’t already, companies need to identify any IE-dependent sites, with Microsoft’s Eric Van Aelstyn, product manager for the Edge browser, saying: “We know that waiting for something to happen can be stressful, especially with complex IT environments.” Internet Explorer has been retired. The web browser is no longer be supported by the tech giant and businesses and IT departments have been urged to migrate their environments, systems and websites over to Microsoft Edge or another browser. The Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application has reached its end of life and has been discontinued by Microsoft on certain versions of Windows 10.
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