Microsoft's new support policy for Internet Explorer, announced all the way back in 2014, kicks in today. From now on, Microsoft will only support the newest version of Internet Explorer on each supported version of Windows.
Windows Vista, for example, shipped with Internet Explorer and had downloadable updates to Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9. Today, Microsoft patched Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9 on Windows Vista. But next month, with the new policy, only Internet Explorer 9 will receive updates. Versions 7 and 8 have dropped out of support. On Windows 7 and 8.1 the only supported version will be Internet Explorer 11.
At the same time, Microsoft is also dropping support for Windows 8. To continue to receive security updates, Windows 8 users will have to install the free Windows 8.1 update (or, of course, the Windows 10 upgrade). That's because Microsoft is treating the 8.1 update as if it were a Service Pack. Microsoft's policy when a Service Pack is released is to support the old version and the new version in parallel for at least 24 months and then force the use of the new version.
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