Internet Explorer

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.

As of Wednesday (June 15), Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate – and a few still claim to.

IE’s market share, which in the early 2000s was more than 90%, 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. Its demise was not a surprise.

For some the browser inspires nostalgia, and for many more it provokes memories of slow-loading pages, bugs, crashes and frustrations.

Partially this is due to mobile browsing dominating the web. It is a long-delayed retirement. For some the browser inspires nostalgia, and for many more it provokes memories of slow-loading pages, bugs, crashes and frustrations.

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.

Users marked IE's passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as “bug-ridden” or the “top browser for installing other browsers”

IE’s market share, which in the early 2000s was more than 90%, 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. Its demise was not a surprise.

As of Wednesday (June 15), Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate – and a few still claim to.

IE’s market share, which in the early 2000s was more than 90%, 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. Its demise was not a surprise.

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.

Microsoft says starting Wednesday it will no longer support Internet Explorer. Resources and tech support will go to Microsoft Edge — an internet portal ...

Resources and tech support will go to Microsoft Edge, an internet portal the company calls new and improved, and the browser that some called Internet Exploder will go the way of Netscape and Ask Jeeves. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. This morning, Microsoft is officially retiring its old web interface. Microsoft is retiring its once-dominant browser Internet Explorer

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.

Microsoft Corp. retired its Internet Explorer on Wednesday, putting an end to a quarter-century-old app while also sparking a small panic among businesses ...