Rest In Peace Internet Explorer

We still have apps that require it...so it lives on. Slowly sunsetting those. We hope to be rid of IE within a year.

 

So many sites and services still rely on IE. South Korea is still heavily dependent on it for basic ecommerce. Microsoft may not be officially supporting it anymore, but it isn't actually disappearing for a while.

 

This

It's compounded because companies don't want to or don't realize they have to spend money to get newer versions of apps that don't rely on a specific browser. I see this a LOT in the Healthcare IT space. It's crazy how many Radiology apps run on IE. It's to a point where the PACS network has to be isolated with no internet in order to use these ancient browsers. Radiology accounts for 30-40% of a hospital's revenue, too.

 

You and I have chatted many times about healthcare IT, bff, and hospitals relying on IE in 2022 is still funny to me. I just went through a vendor acceptance testing event with a client/hospital yesterday that couldn't load our SaaS because we don't support IE and their IT dept forbids the usage of Edge or Chrome. So what did they do? Used Firefox instead.

 

Big red flag. But they bought it anyway, right? I'm in a meeting right now discussing how discovery needs to involve SMEs and knowledgeable PMs and not just salespeople and executives. It's the Iceberg of Ignorance

 

Edge has IE mode still so it still lives on,

 

Bingo. It also doesn't help the fact that this browser issue should have been scoped out by a certain EHR vendor based out of Kansas City because the contract was on their paper. Their people on the call feign ignorance and blamed us.

 

More like Rest in Pieces

 

Up and at them!!

 

F**k IE. As someone who does software engineering and web dev, I won't miss it at all. Fortunately we finished modernizing all our internal web apps and outside-facing site browser requirements a couple of years ago. The fact that our market is 99.99% in the US and Canada (along with our metrics showing less than 0.1% IE usage) made it easier to drop IE support.

 

You got a footnote for these statistics?

 

Let's put a pin in it, I'll reach out and set up a breakout for next post-scrum.

 

Now that's really thinking outside the quadrilateral.

 

Part of the Lean philosophy and Kaizen mentorship subordinate overlook pink belt.

 

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