Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
This means that Microsoft will no longer issue security updates for the above mentioned brower versions, leaving users on older Internet Explorer browsers more open to security threats. However, Windows users installing an update today will, as from this day onwards, be prompted (or rather, nagged) to upgrade their Internet Explorer versions to the latest version available.
Internet Explorer 11 will be the last version of said browser to be supported by Microsoft, before everyone will be migrated to the more modern browser ‘Edge’.
This news comes with great joy for web developers around the world as this means websites can now be built with slightly less checks for bugs and abnormalities. These bugs usually occurred due to the dated browsers still adopting older technologies.
So, if you are using Internet Explorer 8, 9 or 10 to read this article, then click here to upgrade your browser!
Facebook have announced that they will be reducing the number of posts from Business pages from people’s news feeds. This will be done to increase the quantity of posts by friends while scrolling through the social medium. The reasoning behind this, according to Mark Zuckerberg, is that using social media to interact with people we care about can be beneficial, while “passively reading articles or watching videos… may not be as good.”
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