We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight.
So the company has begun gently nudging users forward, dropping support for old operating systems and browsers and encouraging users to upgrade to the latest versions.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
That’s partly because a lot of businesses use Microsoft software and can’t afford to pay to upgrade to each new version, and partly because until recently Microsoft has been pretty generous about plugging security holes in old software.īut Microsoft wants its engineers and coders working on making current software the best it can be, not releasing endless patches for software that’s years out of date. Microsoft, on the other hand, provided security updates for Windows XP until April 2014, nearly 13 years after the operating system debuted. Apple generally takes a pretty aggressive stance: its operating system updates usually don’t work on hardware that’s more than a few years old. You’ll be able to continue using the older versions of Internet Explorer if you really want to, but after Tuesday you’ll be on your own, since Microsoft won’t be officially supporting the software anymore.įor a lot of tech companies, it’s tricky to know how long to keep supporting legacy products.
In addition to the usual security fixes, the patch will include an “End of Life” notification that asks users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 or to Microsoft’s new Edge browser. Next Tuesday, Microsoft will issue the last patch for its Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 browsers.