Microsoft will stop supporting older versions of Internet Explorer by 2016

Microsoft plans to force Windows users to upgrade to the latest versions of Internet Explorer, The Verge writes . The changes will take effect January 12, 2016: Windows 7 and Windows 8 users will need to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 to continue receiving updates.

If Internet Explorer 12 or even version 13 comes before January 12, 2016, and it will support Windows 7 and Windows 8, then their users will need to upgrade to the latest version. The changes mean that after January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer 8 and 10 will no longer be supported on custom versions of Windows.

"Only the most recent version of Internet Explorer for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates" after January 12, 2016, explains Internet Explorer marketing director Roger Capriotti. Along with the automatic update of IE, it seems that Microsoft is finally moving to the Chrome update model, when only the latest version is fully supported.
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This is a positive step for consumers, but it can cause problems for corporate users, whose administrators will have to update IE much more often. Microsoft offers businesses to use "enterprise mode" for Internet Explorer 11 for backward compatibility and support for legacy web applications. In turn, web developers can rejoice: one day in the future they will no longer have to support multiple versions of Internet Explorer if Microsoft succeeds in optimizing the update process in future versions of Windows.