Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer was once the dominant web browser; Microsoft has been phasing it out over several years; It will be replaced by Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 ...

In 2021 the company said the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 was in its faster and more secure Microsoft Edge. Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for over a decade as it was bundled with Microsoft's Windows operating system that came pre-installed on billions of computers. Microsoft Corp announced last year that the Internet Explorer would be "retired" and have its support ended on several versions of Windows 10.

We've known it was coming, but now it's upon us: Internet Explorer, Microsoft's once-dominant internet browser, officially dies today, Wednesday, June 15.

Edge became Windows 10's default browser in 2015, though Internet Explorer has continued to appear on new devices due to those aforementioned IE apps that, nowadays, probably very few still use. But if you're of a certain age, you may feel a pang of regret at the snuffing of IE's meagre flame. According to Statcounter, 67% of desktop browsers worldwide use Chrome, under 10% use Safari, and just over 9% use Edge. Firefox and Opera come in after that, at 8% and 3% respectively.

Once the world's most widely used web browser, Internet Explorer will be laid to rest on June 15, 2022.

Internet Explorer’s market share fell below 50 percent in 2010, and in 2012, Google Chrome overtook Internet Explorer as the world’s most used web browser. For those wishing to hold onto Internet Explorer a bit longer, in a technical FAQ, Microsoft noted that it will only phase out Internet Explorer on Windows 10 20H2 and later. Some businesses might use legacy apps or websites that are only compatible with Internet Explorer. While Edge has an IE mode, these apps and sites might not work as expected.

Internet Explorer is dead. RIP. Microsoft has finally killed off internet explorer, a death that has been coming for a long time.

Microsoft has been trying to kill off the browser for more than half a decade. But at this point, I think it will have to pry it from the cold, dead hands of middle-aged men everywhere. “Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode (‘IE mode’) built in, so you can access those legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications straight from Microsoft Edge.” “The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.” Now that Explorer’s death date has come, it’s time for us to mourn. We kind of agree, at least as far as IE’s replacement goes.

Starting Wednesday, most people who try to open the application will be directed to the company's more recent browser Microsoft Edge.

Frenchman credited with invention of camera in 1816. In 2020, Microsoft announced it was dropping support for Internet Explorer on its Microsoft 365 apps and services. Bye-bye IE: Microsoft to say goodbye to IE, retiring its Internet Explorer web browser on Windows 10 Last May, the company first announced the decision to retire the web browser for certain versions of Windows 10 on June 15, 2022. Internet Explorer had been the go-to browser on Windows PCs for years before rivals such as Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome snagged users away. In less than 24 hours, some 27 years after the company first debuted the browser, Microsoft will retire Internet Explorer.

IE's demise was not a surprise. A year ago, Microsoft said that it was putting an end to Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, pushing users to its Edge browser, ...

It also tangled with European regulators who said that tying Internet Explorer to Windows gave it an unfair advantage over rivals such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera and Google’s Chrome. IE's market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90%, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

Microsoft, a giant technology corporation that produces computer software, is officially discontinuing Internet Explorer on Wednesday after 27 years of ...

Microsoft Edge has only about 4% of the share, which is a little ahead of Firefox. A lot of people had been complaining about the browser being the slowest compared to its competitors, crashing, and being prone to hack attacks. Microsoft announced a year ago that the popular web browser would close down on 15 June 2022 and encouraged users to move to Edge, another browser it launched in 2015.

Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after 27 years and fans are flooding social media to pay their respects to the fallen browser giant.

Internet Explorer was first released in 1995 as part of an add-on package for Windows 95 and in eight years became the most widely used web browser in the world with a 95% usage share in 2003. But others are still deeply attached to the browser that first introduced them to the web. “It’s crazy,” he adds.

As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that scads of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore.

Internet Explorer’s demise was not a surprise. Explorer’s market share, which in the early 2000s topped 90%, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

Some online grew nostalgic about the web browser that launched in 1995. Others lamented its lack of speed and wished it good riddance.

The Japan Times also cited a poll that found 49 percent of 350 Japanese companies surveyed in March said they were still using Internet Explorer. The decision went into effect Wednesday but was announced by Microsoft in a memo last year. Others lamented its lack of speed and said good riddance.

As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore. The 27- ...

IE's market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90%, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives. Users marked Explorer's passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as a "bug-ridden, insecure POS" or the "top browser for installing other browsers." The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

After 27 years, Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer. Support ends today, but IE mode will live on in Edge to provide compatibility for ...

While Microsoft has moved to its Chromium-powered Edge as the default browser on Windows 11, the MSHTML engine that powers Internet Explorer is still part of Windows 11. You can read more about how Microsoft is handling the removal of Internet Explorer in Windows right here. The aging web browser is being sunset in favor of Microsoft Edge, with support being officially withdrawn for IE 11 today.

Security flaws, antitrust memories and slower speed dragged down Internet Explorer as Google Chrome came to rule. Now Microsoft is promoting its Edge ...

When the U.S. Justice Department filed its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft in 1998, the federal agency described the bundling of Internet Explorer in Windows 95 as an "illegal tie-in." Edge is, he said, "the best browser for Windows." Internet Explorer took a commanding lead in browser market share thanks to its inclusion in Windows, the world's most widely used PC operating system. Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer in the Windows 95 operating system free of charge. "Over the next few months, opening Internet Explorer will progressively redirect users to our new modern browser, Microsoft Edge with IE mode," Sean Lyndersay, a general manager at the company, wrote in a blog post. "Microsoft Edge will also check in with the user every 30 days to make sure they still need IE mode for the site," he wrote.

Microsoft will end support for its Internet Explorer browser today, on June 15, 2022. Here's what it means for you.

Microsoft’s support page says that it will withdraw IE Mode support for Windows 10 when support for the operating system ends. What’s somewhat new is that Microsoft plans to end support for Edge’s IE Mode in the future, too. (Microsoft says that won’t happen for all devices all at once, though its guidance is geared toward businesses.) That will mean two things, according to Microsoft. First, your taskbar’s Internet Explorer icon will instead redirect to Microsoft Edge; and second, a “reload in IE Mode” button will be added to the taskbar, too. Microsoft wants you to move to a safer browser. The reality, however, is that virtually all modern browsers are free, safe, and convenient to adopt. But Microsoft basically feels that Edge is a better tool to access those sites, anyway. Instead, Microsoft will retire IE in two phases: first, devices will be “progressively redirected” from IE to Microsoft’s built-in browser, Microsoft Edge, over the next few months. All Microsoft is doing is evicting its residents to something it believes it will be safer to live in. If Internet Explorer is discovered to be vulnerable to malware, for example, you’re on your own. The vast majority of Windows PCs do not use Internet Explorer, so most people won’t be affected whatsoever by its death. Internet Explorer’s desktop application will be retired on Windows 10 PCs beginning today, June 15, 2022. The answer to that is: well, sort of.

Microsoft is starting to redirect Internet Explorer users to Edge. It's part of the end of support for IE, after nearly 27 years.

All currently supported versions of Windows 10 Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT will be impacted by the Internet Explorer retirement today. Microsoft is also planning to support IE mode in Microsoft Edge “through at least 2029.” Microsoft will start automatically redirecting Internet Explorer users to its Edge browser over the next few months.

Remember this day, as Microsoft has officially retired IE, marking the end of a 26-year era for the once-dominant web browser. Microsoft will now.

As The Verge reports, the Trident MSHTML engine powering IE will exist within “IE mode” in Microsoft Edge, a feature that lets users and companies access legacy sites through the new Edge browser. It became a punching bag for jokes as the best web browser for downloading Chrome. In 2015, Microsoft pivoted away from Internet Explorer with the integration of Microsoft Edge into Windows 10. Social media is flooded with grievance and celebration as people remember the browser for both its influence and faults. Edge, originally known as Project Spartan, wasn’t an immediate success, failing to steal significant market share away from Chrome. Microsoft kept IE alive as a safety net for those who weren’t comfortable making the switch. Nikkei Asia reports that government agencies, financial institutions, and manufacturing and logistics companies in Japan that operate websites that only run on IE are now desperately seeking help to port over to a modern browser. Support for IE has officially ended, and in its place is a prompt to use Edge instead.

The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

IE's market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90%, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives. Users marked Explorer's passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as a "bug-ridden, insecure POS" or the "top browser for installing other browsers." The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

Microsoft has officially shut down Internet Explorer after 26 years, but what is dead may never truly die.

But they are indicative of Internet Explorer’s cultural importance for people who grew up alongside the internet, watching it go from a digital Wild West to the all-encompassing cyber-hell we know and love today. It died because of meritocracy, as even its parent company eventually released a much better browser in Edge. I had done a little bit of web-surfing using the awful built-in AOL browser as a kid, but once my family moved on from dial-up and the internet became accessible, IE was how I jumped into it.

Explorer, preceded in death by similarly reviled Microsoft icons Hotmail and Clippy, is survived by Microsoft Edge, the next-generation browser Microsoft first ...

In 2012, it launched a playful ad campaign rebranding Explorer as "the browser you loved to hate." Frustrated users had already had flocked to Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome. When Edge came online in 2015, AdWeek's Kristina Monllos told NPR that an departure date for the embattled Explorer was overdue. At the time on social media, people familiar with Explorer paid tribute to the flawed browser.

Microsoft will be disabling IE and directing Windows users to its modern Edge web browser in coming months. The news inspired jokes, memes and even some ...

He called Edge a “faster, more secure and more modern browser.” In the years since, many Internet Explorer users switched to Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari, finding them faster, safer and less likely to crash. “It did the job but nobody got excited about a really low-performance, unlovable browser.” Bill Clinton was in the White House. And Microsoft introduced a new way to surf the web: Internet Explorer. But it was always there. “Waterfalls” by TLC was the No. 1 song in the country.

On Wednesday, tech giant Microsoft officially ended support for Internet Explorer (IE), the web browser that once dominated the market – and even led to an ...

After 27 years, Microsoft will officially be shutting down Internet Explorer starting Wednesday of this week." "The tale of IE's rise to dominance and then eventual decline to irrelevance parallels the evolution of ecommerce and other activities. That wasn't the end for IE, but perhaps to quote the late Sir Winston Churchill it was the "end of the beginning." Among those who are in the 27 club are blues musician Robert Johnson, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse. For some it was like the passing of an old friend. Microsoft's activities around IE, including bundling it with Windows, also led to the company being charged with violating the Sherman Antitrust Act," said technology industry analyst Charles King of Pund-IT.

Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture, joining BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.

IE’s market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90 per cent, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives. It also tangled with European regulators who said that tying Internet Explorer to Windows gave it an unfair advantage over rivals such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera and Google’s Chrome. Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate – and a few still claim to adore.

Microsoft will formally deactivate the 27-year-old browser in an upcoming Windows update.

Microsoft itself eventually acknowledged that the older browser was fatally out of step with the modern internet, all-but-replacing it with Edge, which came bundled with Windows 10. (Even so, Chrome remains the predominant browser choice for Windows users, beating Edge with 66 percent of market share to the Microsoft product’s 10.) Internet Explorer was 27; it is survived by many better ways to browse the internet.

Microsoft has ended support for its legacy Internet Explorer web browser, though IE mode lives on in Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft is committed to supporting IE mode on Edge through at least 2029. Edge will prompt users every 30 days to see if they still need IE mode for a site. Although Users will continue to see the IE icon on their devices, clicking on it will open Edge instead.

Internet Explorer officially retires Thursday. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Margaret O'Mara, professor at the University of Washington, about the embattled ...

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Microsoft has ended support for its legacy Internet Explorer web browser, though IE mode lives on in Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft is committed to supporting IE mode on Edge through at least 2029. Edge will prompt users every 30 days to see if they still need IE mode for a site. Although Users will continue to see the IE icon on their devices, clicking on it will open Edge instead.

The tech giant officially retired Internet Explorer on Wednesday after 27 years - fans have paid their repects to the once popular web browser.

“The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” the firm said. Stream more tech news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. In a FAQ, Microsoft specified that it was only ending support for Internet Explorer on Windows 10 20H2 and later. In its heyday in the ‘90s and ‘00s, Explorer was the most popular web browser around. The browser was once one of the world’s most popular ways to surf the web but is being put out to pasture by the tech titan, The US Sun reports.