35,000 odd deaths last year so at €100 a pop that's a nice, and climbing, €3,500,000 in predictable revenue for the Irish Times. Coupled with the myhome.ie revenues generated by listing the houses of the dead the IT is probably the most profitable operator in Ireland's death industry.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/1217/1487048-rip-death-notice-price/

#Ireland #IrishTimes #RIPie #Mastadaoine

I thought Internet explorer was abandoned years ago. #ripIE
Microsoft will forcibly remove Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs today

Internet Explorer dies another of its countless small deaths.

Ars Technica
File this one under “FINALLY!” – Happy Valentine’s Day: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer divorce is complete https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599033/microsoft-internet-explorer-end-of-support-update #ripIE
Happy Valentine’s Day: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer divorce is complete

Microsoft is issuing an Edge update today that will permanently disable Internet Explorer on Windows 10. It’s the end of an era for the aging web browser.

The Verge
It may be dead, but its ghost will haunt corpo intranets and industrial control systems for years to come
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/asia/internet-explorer-gravestone-viral-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html
#software #ripIE #web