To note, the company after spending around $100 million every year on the IE decided to back it in favor of the newly introduced Microsoft Edge. According to StatCounter, the market share of IE today has reduced to 0.38% across all the platforms. However, as Microsoft in 2015 introduced a new browser named Edge, it stopped adding features to the IE, making it the least used platform by 2022. The company continued to introduce feature developments to the browser and many businesses worldwide chose IE to host their trades online. Now, it’s time to surf the big web in the sky 🕊 /43L0UpL0gQ- Microsoft Edge June 15, 2022 To our predecessor: You helped the world explore the internet along with every facet of life. By the year 2003, the usage share of the browser had reached 95%. Within a few years, IE competed with Netscape to become the most widely used web browser.
Considering the wider appreciation for the service, the company made available the latest versions as free downloads and tied them permanently to Windows. Journey of Microsoft from IE to Edge-īack in 1995, the IE was first released as an add-on package to the Windows 95 users back then. Though slower and sluggish, the IE as its name suggests aided the curious intellectuals to explore the world of the internet. But people born in the 70s and 80s, who have first tasted the internet connectivity with dial-up connections know their lives with Internet Explorer.īorn in 1995, the Explorer served the internet users with a better browser than the Netscape Navigator which was the existent dominant browser back then. Gen Y and Gen Z probably has never used the browser as more effective competitors like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari had already started dominating the market. It also added that the decision to retire the blue ‘e’ browser was taken as the web developers today make websites less likely compatible with it. The users are hardly mourning Explorer’s exit as it had become less compatible and had already started troubling the users with its slow, bloated, and not-so-secure connection.Īccording to the reports, the company announcing the official exit of the browser said on June 10 that the Explorer users would be automatically redirected to Microsoft’s Edge browser. Microsoft on Wednesday (June 15) finally decided to do away with its classic web browser ‘Internet Explorer’ directing the users to Edge, the new Microsoft-hosted web browser.
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