Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has died many deaths for years, but today is one of the counts. The final version of the browser, Internet Explorer 11, will no longer receive security or security updates starting today, and will gradually be deleted from Windows 10 PC through Windows updates at several points in the future. It was never installed on Windows 11 PC at all.
Microsoft said that people who open Internet Explorer “for the next few months” will be “progressive” directed to Microsoft Edge instead, which will offer to import all bookmarks and passwords that are stored to facilitate transition. For users and businesses who need Internet Explorer to access individual websites, Microsoft will continue to support IE mode in Microsoft Edge to “at least 2029.” IE Mode combines the EDGE user interface with the old IE11 Trident Rendering Machine, allows old websites that don’t make it properly in a newer browser to continue working.
That is the end of the line for Internet Explorer, a browser that destroyed all competitors in the 90s browser war only to be explicitly deleted at the beginning of the browser war in the 2010s. For those who are not there, we have gathered a brief history of life and internet explorer. Ie glory is a long memory, but the whole story is worth knowing. Google Chrome is at the top of the world today, but that does not happen overnight, and the browser war has no meaning if it is not cycle.
From Mosaic Fork to World-Devourer
The story of Internet Explorer begins with NCSA Mosaic, one of the earliest graphic web browsers. It was preceded by a handful of Nexus Team Berners-Lee projects were generally recognized as the first browser, and Cello preceded the mosaic on a Windows-but browser PC which was popularized by the mosaic as we know, with a modern user interface that can be recognized and support for inline images . The ability to combine images and text on the same page may sound like the absolute minimum for the browser now, but in the early 90s, it was revolutionary.
Competitors inspired by mosaic. Some, like Netscape Navigator, are their different projects, although many people who created netscape have worked on the mosaic first. Others are direct branches of the mosaic and use the trademark and its source code. One of these branches is Internet Explorer.
Microsoft licensing the Mosaic version of Spyglass, Inc., which naturally licensed the original version of Mosaic with the intention of uniting a different code base and made the browser support the same features on all supported platforms. Microsoft is just one of the companies that license the Spyglass version of Mosaic; The company hopes to jump into the browser market quickly by putting its name in the existing browser rather than building it from the start.
Some of the first versions of IE are not very important, and they mainly play chasing netscape while adding support for more platforms (when version 3.0 rolled out in mid -1996, IE ran on Windows 95, NT, and 3.1, and Mac 68K and PowerPC). But Windows 95 took over the world of computing at that time, and Microsoft used the increasing dominance of PC platforms to encourage other products, first of them.
Bundling Internet Explorer Microsoft with Windows-Dan, when Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4 rolled, the integration of the deepest browser into all operating systems-is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the IE market share shot down dramatically in 1996 and 1997, taking a large bite from the netscape section only because it was available by default on most Windows 95 era PCs. On the other hand, it attracted intense law supervision, starting with Settlement of $ 8 million with spyglass (Microsoft has agreed to pay spyglass royalties based on IE sales and then bundle it for free, technically generate zero income) and continue with landmarking) technically) and continue with a landmark) and continue the antitrust case landmark brought by the US government.
If you don’t live through the era, it’s hard to imagine the extent of Windows computing in the late 90s. Mac is there and is still loved by “crazy” proverb, but in Nadir in terms of market reach and cultural relevance. Early window competitors such as OS/2 and Beos are mostly defeated. We for many years from Linux distribution which even pretended to be user-friendly. Palm Pilot, Apple Newton, and Pocket PC are strange niche gadgets used by business fathers, people who learn valuable lessons about placing their families in front of their work in the 90s film.
Internet Explorer 6 is the peak of IE – and the architect decline
When Internet Explorer 6 was released in early 2001, Microsoft controlled the well in the north 90 percent of the entire browser market, a percentage that did not even match Google Chrome today. Competitors such as opera and netscape exist, but their market share is microscopic.
And then internet explorers only … stop. After repeating endlessly from 1995 to 2001, Internet Explorer 6 began to step on water. The best feature to come to IE in the early 2000s is probably the Google Toolbar.
Maybe this stagnation is a symptom of the development struggle behind the screen of Microsoft during the longhorn era or side effects of the company’s new attention to security during the Windows XP life cycle which is often extended. Maybe Microsoft is a victim of its own successful-situs web in this era developed specifically for Internet Explorer 6 in a way that can be broken when viewed in other browsers that are more in line with standards, creating reluctance to change and technical debt that Microsoft still pays off. Or maybe it’s only lack of ancient competitions; Microsoft has destroyed all serious alternatives and decided to attract his victory and rest.
Whatever the reason, after a few years inactive, other companies see opportunities and reduce their profits. The most successful browser in the short term is Mozilla Firefox, who rose from the Ash Browser Netscape who was defeated in late 2004 (after a few years of beta release). Firefox popularizes current features such as tab search, integrated search blades, and third party extensions and themes, small but important additions that feel more revelation after years of internet explorers that have not changed. Firefox never overtakes Internet Explorer, but has reached a two -digit market share at the end of 2006, an achievement that was not managed by other browsers since the collapse of Netscape.
But the knife in the heart of Internet Explorer was thrown by Apple. Microsoft has raised Internet Explorer for Mac as part of the Five-Year Agreement with Apple-Microsoft invested $ 150 million in Apple and is committed to supporting offices for Mac, while Apple makes Internet Explorer for Mac Browser Default Platform.
After five years ended, Apple quickly developed and released its own browser, called Safari. It became a Default Platform browser in 2003 (and Microsoft stopped all developments in IE for Mac immediately afterwards, a step that might be justified by Apple’s market share at that time). More importantly, Safari was built on a browser machine called Webkit, which Apple Open-Source in 2005.
And the webkit played by Google when starting to develop its own browser. Firefox and Safari are the same -the same place the dent on the Internet Explorer, calling new attention to web standards and browser interoperability in the process. But Chrome who broke the back of the Internet Explorer.
Chrome combines fast rendering with innovative new user interfaces that have a minimum button and integrated blades for typing URLs and search questions, which immediately make it stand out from the crowd. But that is also the browser created by the largest search engine everywhere in the worlds that are synonymous with searching by Xerox identical ways to make copies and kleenex identical with booger-wiping.
Chrome was released in 2008 at the peak of the Google era “Don’t Be Evil”. This company is very large, and is very popular with consumers and press press, so Chrome is able to pull out pickled bottle caps that Firefox and Safari have spent years loosening. At the end of 2011, Chrome had followed Firefox. At the end of 2012, it removed the internet explorer as the most widely used desktop browser, the place that has been maintained since then.
Namely the struggle, and the steps of Edge enter
Microsoft did not stand still in response to new competition, but also did not respond quickly. Internet Explorer 7 was not released until 2006, five years after the initial release of IE6 and far behind people like Firefox and Safari. IE8 was attended in 2009, followed by IE9 in 2011, IE10 in 2012, and IE11 in 2013. None of those who can capture or reverse the browser decline. Webkit (in the form of safari and pre-KROM web browsers included in Android devices) also dominate the developing smartphone and tablet markets, where iOS and Android quickly sets the dominant position they are still holding until now.
Internet Explorer is declining on the desktop, and is effectively locked from the “post-PC” device that is not controlled by Microsoft. And the Windows Phone Microsoft platform was never caught, which means that the cellular version of Internet Explorer also failed to catch it.
Microsoft updated its efforts to regain relevance with EDGE, which was launched with Windows 10 in 2015. A browser that stores Blue E icons but discard everything about Internet Explorer, EDGE includes a new touch screen interface and a new browser engine called Edgehtml. But changing the name does not fix the fundamental problem of Microsoft: the features of the browser and the compatibility of the website lag behind the competition, and it cannot use the established universe of the third-party browser extension available for Chrome or Firefox. EDGE also suffers because of a rather confusing decision to allow it only on the Windows 10 system, skip Windows 7 and 8 (and say there are no other platforms such as MacOS or Linux).
The first version of the stock of EDGE use never exceeded 5 percent, according to Statcounter data, and it only measures the use of the desktop without taking into account the telephone browser or tablet. It’s so bad that it is more confused by, among many other browsers, Internet Explorer.
At the end of 2018, Microsoft admitted defeat – Kind of. It announced that the new version of Edge based on Google’s chromium codebase would come. In other words, it will be a Microsoft brand wrapping for browsers, mostly Google, vaguely echoing the company’s decision to license the mosaic rather than building its own browser from the bottom up more than two previous decades.
But adopting chromium comes with profits, including extensive compatibility with websites, set of competitive features, and the ability to utilize most of the very large Chrome extension libraries. Since then, Microsoft has coated a number of its own unique features on chromium and its blink engine (branching from the webkit in 2013), even if some of them are annoying. And its contribution to the Chromium project helps improve bugs and solve problems for Edge and Chrome users.
New data only shows two browsers with more than 1 billion users
And in Google’s conceding, Microsoft finally managed to find a footing in the modern browser war. New EDGE -Newly succeeded in issuing Firefox for the third place far in the market share, according to Atlas VPN data. Statcounter, meanwhile, showed Edge barely defeated Safari for the second place in the use of desktop browsers, only more than 10 percent.
This is not much, and at least a portion of that growth has sacrificed Firefox, not chrome that is still dominant. But the new advantage is as successful as Microsoft’s browser has been for many years, and history is repeated. This is far from the most possible results, but the current competitor can always be the thing that we all use to explore the internet tomorrow.