Microsoft plans to release a software update that removes support for handling user names and passwords in HTTP and HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or HTTPS URLs in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The following URL syntax is no longer supported in Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer after you install this software update:
http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext
This article is intended to give you advance notice of this change in Internet Explorer’s default behavior. If you include user information in HTTP or HTTPS URLs, Microsoft recommends that you explore the workarounds that are described in this article before you install this software update. Microsoft will post more information in this article when the software update becomes available.
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Oh my Lord, please tell me they aren’t serious. Internet Explorer has a slew of bugs that deal with this. Rather than fix these bugs, Microsoft is going to discontinue support for the entire thing?
You have got to be kidding me.
Is this innovation? No, it’s laziness. It’s sloppy programming work that caused the problems in the first place. They are relying on people downloading a patch, so should they make a patch which cripples the program or a patch that fixes the problem? WOW.
I really can’t believe this. The combination of audacity and stupidity behind this decision is just staggering.
But you know what? No one can stop them. They answer to no one. Who cares if Opera and Mozilla gets it right? (Opera gets it more right than Mozilla)
Then again, this is even more reason to not use Internet Explorer. These links may not work in Internet Explorer, but they will continue to work in Opera and other browsers.
So do you want a crippled browser with less features and more security holes, or do you want a more secure browser with more features? .
What’s next? Will they remove hyperlinks altogether? Don’t laugh, they have already suggested that you should not click links.