Microsoft will push the last set of security updates for IE8, IE9 and IE10 next Tuesday(January 12). Thereafter that Microsoft will drop support of these three versions of IE. These are some other old products given up by Microsoft since Windows 7. IE11 will be the only Internet Explorer supported and Edge will be another star advocated by Microsoft.
The good news is you will not get annoying notification from Microsoft anymore to ask you to upgrade your IE. But the bad news users will be exposed to more and more security vulnerabilities if continuing to use the old versions of IE. Microsoft is currently promoting its new next generation web browser Edge, which was released along with the release of Windows 10. With this, Microsoft can focus its resource on developing more promising products.
According to statistic from NetMarketShare, IE 8, IE9 and IE10 take 19.8% market share in December 2015.
This means starting from next week, around 20% of browser users will have to worry about their privacy. Microsoft strongly recommends users to upgrade to the latest version of IE or Edge to stay away from future vulnerabilities. For enterprise users who depend on old versions, Microsoft also gives their recommendations to help them upgrade to the latest version.
