Microsoft Internet Explorer users may be surprised when they get redirected to Edge next month

Microsoft has been slowly weaning users unsatisfactory its bequest Internet Explorer browser for a very long time, recently going hitherto as to use a strained Windows update to set u its new Chromium Edge web browser on your Windows PC. But adjacent month, Microsoft's provision to force your computer to mechanically establish some 1,156 websites in Butt on, too — if you try to launch an "incompatible" site in IE.

That's the report from ZDNet, which also recorded a video showing how it works:

Thither's a lot of big-name sites on the automatically-launch-in-Inch leaning, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, a number of Google products, Microsoft Teams, and quite a few banks and other giant brands.

According to a Microsoft FAQ, the change will straighten in Microsoft Sharpness version 87, which is set to arrive the week of November 19th, and that Edge bequeath automatically try to migrate your browsing data from IE unless you uncheck a box (see the image on a lower floor).

Given that older versions of Internet Explorer have been the bane of web developers for a precise long sentence, and given that even generous estimates suggest Internet Explorer counts for no more than 5 pct of now's web traffic, this ISN't a especially frustrating move. I personally haven't touched Internet Explorer in years, and I'm golden to hear it mightiness get along inferior of a certificate risk.

Merely I also understand that some people still use the browser, and those people mightiness be confused when their computer suddenly launches Edge instead. This post is for them.