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It's unfortunate that IE 11 is still in such widespread use compared to Edge. Looks like IE 11 will be the boat anchor for web tech for a couple years at least.

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There's a light at the end of the tunnel. Once IE 11 is mostly gone, everyone will be on an 'evergreen' browser that auto updates. Once we're there, new features won't take 10 years to be usable.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's fair to call Edge evergreen. Updates to Edge come via OS updates, which can be quite a hassle and many corporate environments might not perform at a regular basis.

This article goes into more depth: https://www.scirra.com/blog/173/just-how-evergreen-is-micros...

And the same holds true for Safari (and other browsers) on iOS, I'm afraid. Then again, that probably won't be a matter of decades any more.

Well, Firefox in corporate environments may just as well be on its ESR version, which lags behind by up to a year.

Isn't windows 10 more evergreen as well? I thought IT departments had a lot less control over updates.

Yep. It's truly unfortunate.

As I said on another thread - the problem with that is that Windows 2016 server launched with IE11. So the flagship server OS for the next several years won't support Edge, which is why I'm sitting in enterprise Citrix deployments in 2107 trying to make IE11 work.

I hope we don't still have to make IE11 work in 2107, but considering how often some enterprises seem to keep ancient software around, it just might happen. :)

> Once IE 11 is mostly gone

Except Mobile.

Mobile is Edge-only.

You mean the mobile world doesn't get updates or that IE is somehow relevant in the mobile world?

And mobile is kind of important.

The market share for Edge is amazingly bad, and MS has basically zero usage on mobile.

http://caniuse.com/usage-table

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