Microsoft should certainly make it easy for corporate deployments to re-enable iexplore.exe — but it shouldn't be available by default on your typical Windows 10 install. (It's already available to uninstall and reinstall as an "optional feature".)
Or at the very least, Explorer and the task bar should do everything in its power to hide the existence of Internet Explorer 11. It shouldn't be listed as a program anywhere by default and it shouldn't come up in search.
Re:Retiring Internet Explorer
by colejohnson66 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:47PM
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So do something like what they did with .NET 2.0/3.0 where it’s a feature that has to be installed? But if it detects it’s needed, asks the user to install it right then? That’s actually a good idea. Why isn’t it like this?
Re:Retiring Internet Explorer
by Polylactic_acid on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:45AM
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This is probably a good idea. It seems that so many of the IE users I deal with at work do not need IE for any reason, they are just familiar with the icon and continue to use it even if any other browser would work just as well.
Re:Retiring Internet Explorer
by badsectoracula on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:08PM
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Legacy software like pretty much all of GOG's installers when you click the "Download" button on one of the embedded ads that show during installation :-P
And then there are all the internal corporate web portals that are still IE-only, and probably will remain so for as long as IE is supported in any shape or form.