I’d suggest that you maintain a blog promoting VB6 over .NET, but that would be making disparaging personal remarks not supported by your actual display of “knowledge” and I know you don’t like that sort of thing.
The headline is not “stupidly misleading” - it’s accurate. Microsoft is going to retire, or “kill”, the Internet Explorer brand. They still haven’t figured out what to name the new browser, but they will be going with “Microsoft foo” whenever foo is decided upon.
Correct me if I’m wrong*, until Windows 10, there hasn’t been a modern Windows release without Internet Explorer.
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Since you seem so shy and retiring, I’m issuing an explicit invitation.