diff --git a/src/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.ts b/src/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.ts
index 10b8b4161a084520b95b5f338f6a729be5c38737..a829e88f81285bc9049e2a0b9ef7c520b1288dc0 100644
--- a/src/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.ts
+++ b/src/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.ts
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ export class InstantiationService implements IInstantiationService {
 
 			for (let { data } of roots) {
 				// create instance and overwrite the service collections
-				const instance = this._createInstance(data.desc.ctor, data.desc.staticArguments, data._trace);
+				const instance = this._createServiceInstance(data.desc.ctor, data.desc.staticArguments, data._trace);
 				this._setServiceInstance(data.id, instance);
 				graph.removeNode(data);
 			}
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ export class InstantiationService implements IInstantiationService {
 
 		return <T>this._getServiceInstanceOrDescriptor(id);
 	}
+
+	protected _createServiceInstance<T>(ctor: any, args: any[] = [], _trace: Trace): T {
+		return this._createInstance(ctor, args, _trace);
+	}
 }
 
 //#region -- tracing ---
diff --git a/src/vs/platform/instantiation/node/instantiationService.ts b/src/vs/platform/instantiation/node/instantiationService.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d89da5291a441844bf4f8bf9e13af4be5c577df7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vs/platform/instantiation/node/instantiationService.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+'use strict';
+import { IdleValue } from 'vs/base/common/async';
+import { InstantiationService as BaseInstantiationService } from 'vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService';
+
+// this is in the /node/-layer because it depends on Proxy which isn't available
+// in IE11 and therefore not in the /common/-layer
+
+export class InstantiationService extends BaseInstantiationService {
+
+	protected _createServiceInstance<T>(ctor: any, args: any[] = [], _trace): T {
+		return InstantiationService._newIdleProxyService(() => super._createServiceInstance(ctor, args, _trace));
+	}
+
+	private static _newIdleProxyService<T>(executor: () => T): T {
+		const idle = new IdleValue(executor);
+		return <T>new Proxy(Object.create(null), {
+			get(_target, prop) {
+				return idle.getValue()[prop];
+			}
+		});
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/electron-browser/shell.ts b/src/vs/workbench/electron-browser/shell.ts
index f6f68725746da1c5d2537c225966baa7fdc285e8..4654ca7b0863c37e39b194d717303264124b5099 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/electron-browser/shell.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/electron-browser/shell.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import { ExtensionService } from 'vs/workbench/services/extensions/electron-brow
 import { IStorageService } from 'vs/platform/storage/common/storage';
 import { IInstantiationService } from 'vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiation';
 import { ServiceCollection } from 'vs/platform/instantiation/common/serviceCollection';
+// import { InstantiationService } from 'vs/platform/instantiation/node/instantiationService';
 import { InstantiationService } from 'vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService';
 import { ILifecycleService, LifecyclePhase, ShutdownReason, StartupKind } from 'vs/platform/lifecycle/common/lifecycle';
 import { IMarkerService } from 'vs/platform/markers/common/markers';