As already announced by Microsoft last year, Internet Explorer (IE) is ending this Wednesday (15) after 27 years of operation. The company has already asked organizations that work with the browser to abandon the browser.
From now on, all updates for browsers will be done in Edge. According to the company, the new browser is faster, safer and more modern, as well as offering compatibility with older websites and apps.
“With Microsoft Edge, we offer a path to the future of the web with respect for the past. Change was necessary, but we didn’t want to leave behind reliable and still working websites and applications,” the company said. decided the end of IE last year.
Browser history
Internet Explorer was released by Microsoft in 1995 alongside Windows 95. When the browser was released, it rivaled Netscape Navigator, which dominated the internet at the time. Less than a decade later, the browser became the most used browser in the world. , more than 90% of computers use it.
The success of Internet Explorer bundled with Windows resulted in the demise of Netscape, the trigger for one of the largest antitrust lawsuits to date in history. In 1998, Microsoft was sued in the United States for attempting a monopoly.
With the growth of competitors such as Google Chrome and FireFox, which dominated the industry after 2010, the dominance of the browser began to decline. In 2015, Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer with Edge, but the initial version of the browser was not very successful.
Currently, Microsoft is operating in the browser market with the new Edge, which uses the same engine as Chrome and comes standard in Windows 10 and Windows 11 in addition to its mobile version. With the strengthening of the brand’s operating system, the software has already managed to beat its competitors such as Firefox and Safari.
Source: Tec Mundo
