[Software]Internet Explorer and Edge Legacy will no longer be compatible with Microsoft apps in August 2021

[SougarLord]

Microsoft has taken another step towards the withdrawal of its Internet Explorer browser, pre-installed in old versions of Windows, and has announced that since August 2021 this program and also the old version of Edge Legacy - not based on Chromium - will not be supported with the applications and services of your Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

 

As a first measure, as of November 30, 2020, Internet Explorer 11 - the last update to the browser, released in 2013 - will no longer be compatible with the Microsoft worksharing app, Teams.

 

Likewise, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported with all applications and services of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as of August 17, 2021.

This means that users of the browser, although they will be able to continue using it, will have a "degraded experience or will not be able to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services," as the company reported in a statement.

 

This situation also affects the old version of Edge - prior to the launch this January of Microsoft's current Chromium-based browser - which will also no longer have support with Microsoft 365 apps from August 17, 2021, and with Teams since November 30, 2020.

 

Although the company claims to "respect the applications developed with Innetet Explorer" and old versions of Edge and that these will continue to work, it has recommended companies and users to migrate to the new version of Edge.