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Gonna go out on a limb here and say that anyone still using IE isn't going to be persuaded away from it by a fancy blog post.

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Its also the stock bowser on the dominant os any one serious about web development must support IE.

The problem is when lazy developers use short cuts and make sites that only work on IE - quite how they mange to do this I have no idea.

> Its also the stock bowser on the dominant os

Which OS? The stock browser of Windows 10 is Edge not IE.

Oh sorry I did mean Edge

Isn't IE marketshare only a few percent if that?

Gonna take a wild guess that anyone reading HN probably hasn't used IE in the last decade aside from the purpose of downloading another browser

I am gonna guess, this is not true. Some are required to use it in corporate environment.

The corporate Standard Operating Environment grinds slowly and not particularly fine.

I worked in shipping and in fact the UPS shipping software will open IE for certain pickup booking tasks. I tried to use firefox or chrome with the same URL and it didn’t work.

During work there was never time to look into it in more detail, so there might be a workaround, but the general quality (or the lack thereof) when it comes to shipping software didn’t really convince me.

Not only does my corporate environment only support IE, but if I change my default browser to Chrome or FF (thank <diety> I have local admin rights), then the default security policy will revert the default back to IE11 whenever I reboot.

yup legacy is a killer.

I had to use it today to connect to some old activeX iLo console for a server. Our internal HR module also only works with IE.

On the corporate laptop I'm currently using, IE still is (or was, until recently) the default browser with no possibility to change that setting, despite company policy that we shouldn't use IE anymore. Wrap your head around that one.

Guess again. It's not by choice, though.

I use IE as my standard browser my chrome and firefox are set up for different usages with ton of plugins

Some might use it to test stuff still works for their users/customers.

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