Internet Explorer, the online browser widely used
and equally widely mocked, is finally dead. Microsoft is officially telling
users to move on from the 27-year-old application and switch to its newer Edge
browser instead.
Last year, the tech
giant announced that it would shut down its Internet Explorer version 11 Windows 10 desktop
application and replace it with Microsoft Edge.
Internet Explorer, formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer
and Windows Internet Explorer was a series of graphical web browsers with 11
versions and was developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows
line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
The browser
was first released as part of the add-on package plus for Windows 95 that year.
Internet Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak
of about 95 percent usage share by 2003.
In March 17,
2015, Microsoft announced the replacement of Internet Explorer with
Microsoft Edge as the default browser.
As it is now,
Microsoft will start automatically redirecting Internet Explorer users to its
Edge browser over the next few months.
The redirect
process to Edge will bring over data like passwords, favorites, and settings
from Internet Explorer, and a “reload in IE mode” option will be presented in
the toolbar to make it easy to access the special mode that Microsoft has built
into Edge.
