The former king of web browsing will retire on June 15, marking the end of an era.
Key points:
- Internet Explorer was once the dominant web browser
- Microsoft has been phasing it out for several years
- It will be replaced by Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 devices
Microsoft Corp. announced last year that Internet Explorer would be “removed” and that its support would end in several versions of Windows 10.
Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for more than a decade, as it was included with Microsoft’s Windows operating system that came preinstalled on billions of computers.
Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer for its Teams web application by 2020, and continued access to Microsoft 365 services such as OneDrive, Outlook, and Word from August.
“The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be removed and unsupported on June 15, 2022 for certain versions of Windows 10,” the company said in a blog post last year.
Microsoft launched Edge in 2015 to compete with more popular browsers such as Google Chrome, which has now dominated the market.
In 2021, the company said that the future of Internet Explorer in Windows 10 was on its Microsoft Edge faster and more secure.
Explorer still allows users to access websites and applications based on technology that are too old and outdated to be compatible with modern browsers, but Edge had it covered with an integrated “Internet Explorer mode”, making the older browser unnecessary until all in these extreme cases. .
ABC / Reuters