It can be. I'm surprised after years of MS saying "IE is old and s*it and will be going away, you should stop using it" that when they do finally get rid of it, they immediately bring it back as IEmode inside Edge.
In that case, wouldn't it have been safer to keep iexplore.exe so that people who have dumped IE don't have to worry about hackers trying to "trick" msedge.exe into running dodgy websites in IEmode?
MS mail is crap
Insecure, yes, but ever. nope.
You mean being a buggy heap of doodoo?
Alas there are few who care about usenet these days....
No native support for exchange mailboxes probably being the biggest problem.
It is still installed - and you can run it if you try hard enough. IE mode in edge does handle most stuff that used to *require* IE though.
Sometimes, although you can nail it down bit by only allowing to execute on domains you trust.
In the control systems world (at least the bit I have mainly worked in) they lock everything down, isolate the network from all except the required control system devices, firewall even the sections of that from each other - and they have been known to epoxy up the USB ports.
They then run like that, needing nothing but updated antivirus databases (from a locked down, dedicated laptop) and expected to keep the same software versions and set-up for the next 30 years or more.
I have 3 Samsung systems, all different models and ages. 1 seemed to work fine using "IE Mode". Another kept telling me I haven't installed the plugin, or it was out of date when using IE Mode. I went into internet options under security, trusted sites and custom level. Then enabled or set to Prompt everything that has to do with active X and now it seems to be working with IE Mode. I don't know what has changed It appears you can set a specific site to automatically open with IE Mode but only for 30 days??. Hope this helps someone else.
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