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gory prizes and of course the overall winners shield for best picture. Geoff soon became the man
to beat and by this did much to make us all better photographers.

Geoff will be sorely missed by us all.

Internet Explorer is finally dead – and you

should probably stop using it

MICROSOFT has hammered the final nail into Internet Explorer's coffin, forcing Windows 10 us-
ers to move to its recently redesigned Microsoft Edge web browser, or rivals like Google Chrome,
Opera and Mozilla Firefox. Here's when you'll lose the IE from your PC.

Microsoft has confirmed plans to phase out Internet Explorer over the next year. The application,
which used to be the default browser on any Windows computer, was supposed to be replaced by
the Microsoft Edge alongside Windows 10 back in July 2015. However, the original Edge browser
was so disastrous that Microsoft kept Internet Explorer in the operating system longer than
planned.

But with the recent overhaul of Microsoft Edge, which saw almost everything from the original
app removed (except the name) and switch over to the open-source Chromium codebase that pow-
ers Google Chrome. The updated Microsoft Edge, which is available on Android, Windows 10,
MacOS and iOS, is now compatible with all of the same browser extensions as Chrome. It also

works seamlessly with all of the same web apps and sites as Chrome too.

Given that Chrome now accounts for about 64 percent of all desktop web traffic worldwide – al-
most every website on the planet is now designed to work with the browser.

In tests, the new Microsoft Edge performs better than Google Chrome, especially when it comes to
battery life. So it makes sense that Microsoft would now look to retire some of its legacy web
browsers. As well as Internet Explorer, often stylised as IE by Microsoft, the US firm will be slow-
ly removing support for the original 2015 version of Edge.

In a statement Microsoft confirmed that "Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support
Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) by this time next year. Beginning November 30, 2020, the Microsoft

Teams web app will no longer support IE 11. And beginning August 17, 2021, the remaining Mi-
crosoft 365 apps and services will no longer support IE 11."