• Customers to have a degraded experience or will be unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services on IE 11.
• Company suggests transitioning to the new Microsoft Edge.
• Support for Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app to end on March 9, 2021.

Bengaluru: Microsoft announced the dates when Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 will no longer support the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app and Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) web browsers.

Microsoft said that it will end support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy on March 9, 2021, after which users still using the browser will no longer receive any security updates.

From November 30 this year, the Microsoft Teams web app will no longer support IE 11 and from August 17, 2021, the remaining Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support IE 11.

“This means that after the above dates, customers will have a degraded experience or will be unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services on IE 11. For degraded experiences, new Microsoft 365 features will not be available or certain features may cease to work when accessing the app or service via IE 11,” Microsoft said.

They have urged customers no to access Microsoft 365 apps and services using IE 11, but made it clear that IE 11 isn’t going away. 

Customers have been using IE 11 since 2013, since then, open web standards and newer browsers—like the new Microsoft Edge—have enabled better, more innovative online experiences.

Microsoft claims that customers will get the most out of Microsoft 365 when using the new Microsoft Edge.

The new Edge is a browser built on the Chromium open source engine with the latest in Microsoft enterprise capabilities.

Since its release in January, millions of users have upgraded their home and work browsers to the new Microsoft Edge. Additionally, new devices and future Windows feature updates (starting with Windows 10, version 20H2) will contain the new Microsoft Edge.

For customers using IE 11 to access Microsoft 365 apps and services, or using Microsoft Edge Legacy as their preferred browser, Microsoft is offering a range of support options to help transition.

Customers with 150 or more Windows 10 Enterprise paid seats can also request free guidance on how to plan, deploy, or adopt the new Microsoft Edge through the FastTrack service at no additional charge.