Internet Explorer is dead: zero-day hammers final nail into browser coffin

Microsoft has released YAIESA, or Yet Another Internet Explorer Security Advisory if you prefer. This time, SA2757760 warns about a new zero-day out there in the wild which impacts all users of Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions. It's the usual case of targeted attacks being spotted which could lead to the remote execution of malicious code if you happen to view an infected website. Although users of Internet Explorer 10 are not affected according to Microsoft, which accounts for a tiny minority of IE users of course, this does amount to what I see as the final nail being hammered into what has already become quite a creaky web browser client coffin of late; and here's why.