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Jukka-Pekka Keisala

I work mostly on enterprise customers and there on IE11 (not Edge) is still rolled out on Windows 10 when employee gets new PC. I don't expect this to change until Microsoft drops IE11 support entirely. Of course for hobby websites it is fine to drop IE support but for the rest of the internet supporting IE should be as important as supporting accessibility.

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Arek Nawo

Yeah, the enterprise problem. I don't have experience with such things, so I won't comment. But, IE support being not important "for hobby websites" is, in my opinion, not true. Not only because websites such as GitHub also drop it, but also because some of these websites might target IE-focused demographic.

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Ghost

can you remind me who owns Github nowdays?, ha, not even MS supports IE, even them recognize the annoyance. Windows should offer other browsers at install time and MS drop their browser efforts, why do they want a browser after all, they are collecting everything at OS level anyway. It even must be annoying for them to deal with all duplicated collected data. :D

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Ghost

for enterprise customers is just lazy IT, if you have an old SAP (or something alike) that needs IE, just get two browsers, you shouldn't use IE in the wild anyway, is too insecure; you can keep your IE just for your enterprise "IE only" website. The rest are just excuses from the IT department not wanting to do their job.