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great big list of stuff that only fully works in IE here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/browser-...

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Wow, that's a lot of core features. And it sort of makes sense because it's all in ActiveX, and ActiveX is not supported by Edge.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/emie-...

So an ActiveX control written in 1996 can run in Windows 10 Enterprise today via IE11. Neat... I guess.

There are quite a few other things that don't work with, such as calendar overlays - the ability to display multiple calendars on a single calendar page. LOts of other weirdnesses too.

> Enables a webpage to display a contact card and presence status for people. Integrates through client-side APIs with Office client and Skype for Business client.

It's crazy that modern sharepoint version still use ActiveX for something like this imo. I wonder if Microsoft's newer web APIs could be used to reimplinent this functionality without ActiveX

In Microsoft Teams they do, but I find the availability status sometimes conflicts with what the Skype for business app says.

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