Adios, Internet Explorer: We'll Not Miss You Much...
Posted 02-15-2016 at 08:18 PM by Blondebaerde
Finally: there are few-to-no sites I work with in professional or personal life that necessitate using Internet Explorer (IE). Might encounter a legacy holdout sooner or later, but they should be on the wane as sites continue to upgrade into 2016.
Edge, on the other hand, can be enjoyable and I leverage it periodically, though it isn't my first choice.
The significant bulk of my business and personal life online dealings are via Chrome. I'm in it all day to leverage our firm's systems, built primarily on SharePoint and a few other technologies. I appreciate the excellent vertical integration of Chrome with various Google sites and services I use personally, too. A browser not without its problems, but I like the frequent silent updates plus overall performance. It plays nice with Windows.
Goodbye, IE, you served us well for many years but it's time for that great code repository in the sky. You didn't age gracefully, and in tech that is a death sentence. For those who tolerate but no longer embrace Microsoft's related ecosystem of accounts and services, you're really not as relevant as you once were. Per online stats, Edge and IE still have a good chunk of the market, but that seems to be slowly waning into 2016.
Tech is fickle, only seven years ago I was a WinMo kind of guy for SmartPhones. The phrase "vertically integrated with a particular ecosystem of accounts and online services" didn't matter 1/10 as much. Now, without Hangouts (phone/SMS), Drive (files), Gmail, Play, Maps, Keep, Calendar, Contacts, Android Pay, and Photos, I'd be a helluva lot less-organized. I only use Chrome Mobile on my Nexus 6P, haven't needed portable IE or Firefox yet...and hopefully won't.
Interesting how much personal business I've transferred to my mobile, and tablet, too. Laptops, less every year but they're still tops for business. Pretty obviously that's all going to converge, though into what form factor we know not (and Apple, Microsoft, and others are spending billions trying to figure that out, if there is a truly sweet-spot for device capabilities vs. size (portability).
As I struggle with two laptops (1 work, 1 personal), one personal Smartphone, one Google tablet, and a Surface 3 Pro that is outstanding for notes (I use OneNote, which syncs to all my devices. See "ecosystem" comments, above.)
Ten years from now...?
http://www.computerworld.com/article...etreating.html
Edge, on the other hand, can be enjoyable and I leverage it periodically, though it isn't my first choice.
The significant bulk of my business and personal life online dealings are via Chrome. I'm in it all day to leverage our firm's systems, built primarily on SharePoint and a few other technologies. I appreciate the excellent vertical integration of Chrome with various Google sites and services I use personally, too. A browser not without its problems, but I like the frequent silent updates plus overall performance. It plays nice with Windows.
Goodbye, IE, you served us well for many years but it's time for that great code repository in the sky. You didn't age gracefully, and in tech that is a death sentence. For those who tolerate but no longer embrace Microsoft's related ecosystem of accounts and services, you're really not as relevant as you once were. Per online stats, Edge and IE still have a good chunk of the market, but that seems to be slowly waning into 2016.
Tech is fickle, only seven years ago I was a WinMo kind of guy for SmartPhones. The phrase "vertically integrated with a particular ecosystem of accounts and online services" didn't matter 1/10 as much. Now, without Hangouts (phone/SMS), Drive (files), Gmail, Play, Maps, Keep, Calendar, Contacts, Android Pay, and Photos, I'd be a helluva lot less-organized. I only use Chrome Mobile on my Nexus 6P, haven't needed portable IE or Firefox yet...and hopefully won't.
Interesting how much personal business I've transferred to my mobile, and tablet, too. Laptops, less every year but they're still tops for business. Pretty obviously that's all going to converge, though into what form factor we know not (and Apple, Microsoft, and others are spending billions trying to figure that out, if there is a truly sweet-spot for device capabilities vs. size (portability).
As I struggle with two laptops (1 work, 1 personal), one personal Smartphone, one Google tablet, and a Surface 3 Pro that is outstanding for notes (I use OneNote, which syncs to all my devices. See "ecosystem" comments, above.)
Ten years from now...?
http://www.computerworld.com/article...etreating.html
