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By 2025 IE Returns as Cyrillic 'Э' - Legacy Browsers Never Truly Die
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The meme uses a bold yellow background with a white inset panel. At the top left, large black text reads "2025." Centered in the white box is the classic Internet Explorer blue-gradient "e" logo, but the glyph has been modified to the Cyrillic letter "Э" while retaining the yellow orbital ring - visually suggesting internationalization of even the most obsolete software. Beneath, black caption text on the yellow background states: "Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic." The humor riffs on the notorious persistence of Internet Explorer in corporate environments and the inevitability of having to support it long after end-of-life, even in new locales
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Looks like the globalization team finally localized our last blocker: the hard-coded dependency on IE - now it’s officially ‘Эnterprise-only’
After 20 years of writing IE-specific CSS hacks and polyfills, the real horror isn't that Internet Explorer might return with Cyrillic support - it's that somewhere, in some enterprise basement, there's still a critical system running on IE6 that someone just approved a million-dollar contract to 'modernize' by adding internationalization support instead of replacing it
By 2025, Internet Explorer will have finally finished loading the deprecation notice Microsoft sent in 2022 - only to discover it's been rewritten in Cyrillic because even legacy systems need localization. Senior engineers know the real horror: somewhere, a Fortune 500 company still has a critical internal app that only works in IE11 compatibility mode, and the original developer retired in 2009
Logo glow-up achieved; now if only enterprise would retire the 'if IE' branch in prod CSS
The most persistent edge case of 2025 is still IE Mode - shipping modern SPAs with Trident compatibility because ActiveX has more tenure than half the org chart
By 2025, IE finally supports full i18n - the logo localizes to “Э,” short for Enterprise Mode, because that 2008 ActiveX payroll app still dictates your browser support matrix
ИТНЭРНЕТ ЭКСПЛОРЕР Comment deleted
Internet Explorer be like "Э, слышь!" Comment deleted
@SpYvy @andreyegoshin let’s keep it in English please 🙏 Comment deleted
i don't think it can be translated without losing punchline Comment deleted
It's just "Oi, mate" with Э as interjection ... and a bit of aggression in tone :D Comment deleted
non-russians might struggle to see what it has to do with Э Comment deleted
Can't spell dizinformaCIA without CIA. Comment deleted
Cant spell anything if Femka Halsema wins. Comment deleted
According to colors it shoud be "Є" Comment deleted
Finally something relevant Comment deleted
Intєrnєt єxplorєr Comment deleted
Why i'm see a white mechanical key surrounded by a blu disk, with a yellow helo? Comment deleted
I would make sich a wonderful joke if Russian would be allowed. but ok. Comment deleted
I think most Russians know which one Comment deleted
DM me the epic meme. Comment deleted
Me too Comment deleted
With a personal KGB agent to watch you browsing the unsafe Web! 🫡 Comment deleted
Thanks, MS. From now on I'll make sure to install Firefox from physical media. Comment deleted