[Software]After 27 years of service, "Microsoft" officially bids farewell to the browser "Internet Explorer"

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The company "Microsoft" officially bid farewell, Wednesday, to the browser "Internet Explorer", which was one of the first reference tools for browsing the Internet in the mid-nineties of the twentieth century before the emergence of competing browsing tools that matched it and then surpassed it, most notably Google.
The use of "Explorer" will remain available, but the giant company based in Redmond (Washington state) will no longer make any updates or modifications to this browser, which it launched about 27 years ago, in August 1995.
At the beginning of the year 2021, Microsoft announced the end of "Explorer", from which 11 successive versions were available, and then set in May 2021 the date of June 15, 2022 to implement this decision.

"Edge"
From now on, the group intends to focus its efforts on its other browser, "Edge", which it launched in 2015, given that it is "faster, safer, and provides a more modern browsing experience," as it explained last year in its explanation of this trend.
The company was keen to ensure that Edge was able to visit sites and applications built on the basis of "Explorer".

After twenty-five years of work, Internet Explorer retires
The "Kinsta" specialized website indicated that the share of "Explorer" of the Internet browsing tools market was now limited to 2%, while the share of "Google Chrome" is 77 percent and "Safari" (from "Apple") 8 percent. and Edge 5 percent.

After its launch, "Explorer" quickly replaced the first major browser in the history of the Internet, "Netscape", and its share of the sector exceeded 90 percent at the beginning of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
After 25 years of service, Microsoft is dispensing with "Internet Explorer"
farewell greeting
And social networking sites were filled with comments from users nostalgic for the beginnings of the Internet, and they bid farewell to the blue letter "e" that has long appeared on the screens of hundreds of millions of computers.
TV presenter Brian Keeler tweeted, "I'm of Internet Explorer age. You've been my childhood companion. Rest in peace."

Indonesian businessman Edi Solistyo wrote on Twitter, "Thank you for being the best browser to download Chrome and Air Fox in 14 years."

In 1997, the government of former US President Bill Clinton filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its dominant position, especially with regard to the browser, "Explorer".

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