Cavalary: As they and other companies are nowadays, more exactly. Their old stuff, be it Win 7 or IE11, still receives security updates and, as long as you stick to just those updates and not others they may try to bundle or slip through, remains far less problematic than the other stuff available today, be it theirs or others'.

Dryspace: You didn't actually convey to me a reason for not using IE11--one that matters from my perspective, that is.

The reasons that I use IE11 are:

1. It appears to display pages correctly perhaps 99.6% of the time,

2. I haven't had any problems with it other than the occasional incorrectly-displayed page,

3. Firefox, the only other browser I have installed, has unfortunately an issue with not displaying some page elements such as countdown timers, and

4. I don't want Google involved in my life any more than it already is, so Chrome is right out.

I have no affinity for Internet Explorer whatever, but I have no problem using it as long as it gets the job done in a tolerable manner.

Darvond: So use Chromium. It's Google Chrome but without the Google. Or any number of other browsers, like Vivaldi, one of the endless widget browsers (IE: Midori),

djoxyk: Midori lacks WebGL so won't be of much use on modern pages. also gtk dependency is questionable. I used it for months on basically text driven sites, anything with scripts, multimedia or video made it to freeze or crash. Palemoon does it much better.

Darvond: Midori was an example, a shot in the dark. There's several others to pick.

Carradice: Back in the day, Microsoft was the bad guy. Now, it comes out that they never were as intrusive as other companies are nowadays.

Dryspace: I'm just really, really hoping that Vulkan takes off so that I do not find myself in the position of having to purchase Windows 10 just for DX12.

PromZA: First it's Gmail and now GOG all in one week. I don't know where this idea started that making things bigger and more spaced out is the way to go. People that talk about browsers failing standards tests are entirely missing the point that the founding principle of the web is that it's platform agnostic. Anything beyond tables is entirely optional and up to the browser to implement or not.

If your site is not "supported" by a browser then it is actually your design not supporting the browser. I should be able to use GOG in text only mode without javascript or flash. If anything is missing you didn't follow correct design. If I have to hover or click to see anything basic you didn't follow correct design. Anything that requires hovering or clicking or graphics should be an optional extra and not break the site. I wish designers would go back and read the same books I did that were written when the web just started growing and Opera on Win95 was the most technologically advanced you were going to get.