Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode
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| Original publisher | The Register |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/18/admins-youve-been-warned-the-clock-is-ticking-on-edges-ie-mode/5297408 |
| Publication time | Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:29:00 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-18T15:33:45.333Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-18T15:33:45.333Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | gfUcnEFzM-UC · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); software Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years Richard Speed Richard Speed MICROSOFT ECOSYSTEM REPORTER Published fri 18 Sep 2026 // 16:29 UTC READ MORE Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly 2 hours ago Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank 1 day ago Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in…
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