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According to the official Weibo of Microsoft Edge browser on May 16, Microsoft’s IE browser will be officially retired on June 16. After the IE browser is retired, Edge will take over.
In August 1995, one of the most successful operating systems in Microsoft’s history: Windows 95, came out with the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up”. The start-up music created by ambient music master Brian Eno is still familiar to everyone.
As the default browser of Windows 95, IE quickly occupied the market. Three years later, it successfully became the browser with the largest market share in the world. It even reached its peak in 2003, occupying 95% of the global market share. That was the golden age of Internet Explorer.
Later, IE turmoil continued, experienced vicissitudes of life. Finally, IE has to officially say goodbye to everyone. IE’s 27-year journey, from now on, this routing Edge will continue to go on for IE. Not long ago, the desktop market share of the Edge browser finally exceeded 10%. Looking at the glory of IE in the past, Edge feels that there is a long way to go, and I will search up and down.
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, Internet Explorer, the full name of Internet Explorer, is the first default browser for Windows and was launched in 1995. With the rapid occupation of the market by the Windows system, the market share of IE browsers once reached over 90% in the early 21st century. In 2003, IE browser accounted for 95% of the market share, becoming the most widely used web browser with the highest market share in the world.
With the advent of Firefox and Chrome, a free web browser developed by Google, the market share of IE has gradually declined. The IE browser is gradually linked to keywords such as slowness, lag, and few functions, which has been criticized by many users. In 2016, Microsoft launched the Edge browser, which officially replaced IE’s status in Microsoft as the default browser for Windows systems. At that time, IE’s market share was less than 2%. When Microsoft announced the retirement of IE in its Weibo, it mentioned that at present, the desktop market share of the Edge browser has exceeded 10%.
Although there are so many shortcomings, but after 27 years of history with netizens, IE is about to retire now, and netizens are still very sorry. “Microsoft’s IE browser officially retired on June 16” also rushed to the hot search on Weibo.
Many netizens said that this is the end of an era, a witness of youth for generations.
However, for domestic users, many websites such as exams and banks are not compatible with other browsers, and can only be opened by IE browsers. Therefore, some netizens worry about exam registration and certificate download, and worry about what to do. In this regard, Microsoft has stated that the current Edge browser has built-in IE browser compatibility mode, and users only need to turn on this function to browse websites that are only compatible with IE browser normally.
Source: Daily Economic News
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