Internet Explorer for consumers will no longer be supported by Microsoft after this summer. It made the decision to make Internet Explorer Eleven its full version and unveiled the plan last year. The first version of Internet Explorer was released for Windows desktop PCs in 1995, and by 2004, the software had captured 95 percent of the market share. But as of right now, the most popular browsers are Google Chrome, Safari by Apple, and Mozilla Firefox.
Users that are interested in remaining loyal to Microsoft are being steered to the Microsoft Edge web browser, which was released in 2015 along with Windows 10. Internet Explorer's popularity has suffered as a result of the release of newer, quicker browsers such as Google chrome and Firefox. Additionally, people have flocked to new programmes that allow them to traverse websites such as Google Search, Facebook, and YouTube.
The proliferation of smartphones then potentially dealt the killing blow, with browsers like Apple's pre-installed Safari and Google Chrome for Android phones contributing to the movement of internet acceptance and availability into the realm of mobile devices. According to StatCounter, an independent web analytics company, mobile and tablet internet usage surpassed desktop usage for the first time anywhere in the globe in the month of October 2016. And earlier in same year, StatCounter discovered that Google Chrome was used on more than 60 percent of desktop computers throughout the world to access the internet. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer as well as Edge's combined penetration of the desktop market marginally fell below that of Firefox for the very first time.
The Term Tidal Wave
For the convenience of developers and other users who need to use legacy apps, Edge keeps a "IE mode" integrated right in. Access to Microsoft's older desktop browser will reportedly be retained on previous versions of Windows, notably Windows 8.1, Windows 7 Extended Security Updates, and certain versions of Windows 10. Microsoft made this announcement. Due to the fact that Internet Explorer has been pre-installed in Windows computers for even more than twenty years, its legacy will undoubtedly continue when the programme is discontinued.
In 1995, Bill Gates, one of the co-founders of Microsoft, stated that the release of Windows 95, and Internet Explorer along with it, would be a part of the technological behemoth's efforts to surf the "internet tidal wave. His dream of "a microcomputer upon each desk and in every household, running Microsoft software" may now appear reminiscent of a bygone era of dial-up internet; yet, Internet Explorer is set to be recognised as one of the essential tools that modified the world the internet is used and accessed even today. This is because Internet Explorer was one of the first web browsers to support tabbed browsing.
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