Windows 8.1, IE 11 and SharePoint Online

I have windows 8.1 and can not get "Form Settings" in SharePoint to work. It tells me "Internet Explorer is required to use this feature.", but I am using IE. I did not have this
issue on my windows 7 box at work but on my laptop I can not get IE 11 to work correctly. From my understanding there is no way to roll back to IE 10 on Windows 8.1. So my question, is there a workaround for this issue or am I just out of luck that MS products
that should work together do not. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
Form my experience, it may be the issue that IE is not set as default browser.
Do you have another browser in your computer?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/internet-explorer/make-ie-default-browser#ie=ie-11-win-7
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Is there any way to remove or rename the yellow message showing when hovering over the control for a lookup list column in a Infopath 2013 web form?
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Hi Laura,
According to your description, my understanding is that the error occurred on the lookup column in InfoPath web form.
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Yammer used for page comments in SharePoint Online, initially says "The feed you've requested does not exist"

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https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Embed-a-Yammer-feed-into-a-SharePoint-site-4817d2fa-50f6-4f25-88a0-a312745768d4
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Hello all,
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Hi Sergio Russo,
I haven’t seen samples to call SharePoint online CSOM with external user account, the following article shows how active authentication works in Office 365 SharePoint online:
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