Security News > 2020 > July > You've had your pandemic holiday, now Microsoft really is going to kill off TLS 1.0, 1.1

Having issued an all-too-brief stay of execution on the decidedly whiffy Transport Layer Security 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Microsoft 365, the Windows giant has announced that deprecation enforcement will kick off again from 15 October.

The protocols were actually deprecated back in 2018 but Microsoft halted enforcement earlier this year, recognising that IT departments had quite a bit of unexpected work on their hands thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.

There has been plenty of notice - Microsoft went public with its plans in December 2017 and killing off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 once and for all is a long-held dream of the industry.

Microsoft emitted version 8.62 last week, replete with custom backgrounds and support for more chums in a video call.

Having pushed out the first preview of its latest attempt to persuade developers that Windows desktop apps are still worth coding, no matter how whiffy the original Universal Windows Platform dream may be nowadays, Microsoft has had popped more flesh on the bones.

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