Goodbye Internet Explorer! Microsoft announces the end of support for the 25-year-old web browser in 2021
- Microsoft’s Internet Explore will be 25 this year, but will meet its end in 2021
- The company said it will no longer support the August 17, 2021 browser
- It will start sending updates from users to download its Chromium-based Edge
Internet Explorer has been pronounced dead.
Microsoft announced the 25-year-old browser will disappear from the web on August 17, 2021.
The tech giant shared the news in a blog post, stating that the Microsoft Teams web team no longer supports Internet Explorer 11, the latest version, starting November 30, 2020.
By summer, none of Microsoft’s remaining 365 apps and services will connect to the browser.
By the deadlines, users of the dated browser will have a ‘degraded experience’, except for pages specifically built by companies for Internet Explorer.
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Internet Explorer has been pronounced dead. Microsoft announced the 25-year-old browser will disappear from the web on August 17, 2021
The announcement came a long time after Microsoft launched its Edge browser five years ago.
In 2015, Microsoft had confirmed that it intended to drop the Internet Explorer brand and move to the new Edge, which at the time became codenamed Project Spartan.
At the time, the company had plans to keep both browsers alive, but switched to Rebranding Explorer.
Customers have been using Internet Explorer (IE 11) since 2013 when the online environment was far less sophisticated than the landscape today, ‘Microsoft said in Monday’s blog post.
The company is also pulling the plug on the older version of Edge March 9, 2021 to make room for the new browser. It will push the new Chromium-based Edge into updates for Windows users before the current version ends
“Since then, open web standards and newer browsers – like the new Microsoft Edge – have enabled better, more innovative online experiences.”
However, the company is also pulling the plug on the older version March 9, 2021 to make room for the new browser.
It will push the new Chromium-based Edge into updates for Windows users before the current version ends.
Microsoft honors investments made by business owners in Internet Explorer and allows all private IE 11 applications to function as normal.
The brand has struggled to shake off the bad reputation of Internet Explorer 6, which was notoriously insecure. Since then, many of the versions have been stopped due to flopping among the public
Internet Explorer, first called Windows Internet Explorer, was first released as part of the Plus! for Windows 95 in 1995.
It was one of the most used browsers, reaching a height of about 95 percent in 2002 and 2003.
However, it has struggled in the face of competition, and in May 2012 it was announced that Google’s Chrome is taking over Internet Explorer as the most used browser worldwide.
The brand has struggled to shake off the bad reputation of Internet Explorer 6, which was notoriously insecure.
Since then, many of the versions have been stopped due to flopping among the public.
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