This Is Why Microsoft Is Shutting Down Internet Explorer For Good
This Is Why Microsoft Is Shutting Down Internet Explorer For Good. Microsoft has, at long last, announced when it will pull the plug on Internet Explorer. The company will retire the IE 11 desktop app on June 15, 2022, on most versions of Windows 10.
According to Yahoo News, the move won’t affect the Windows 10 Long-Term Servicing Channel, which is used for devices that stay the same over time, such as MRI machines and air traffic control systems. Nor will the retirement affect Server Internet Explorer 11 desktop applications or the MSHTML (Trident) engine. For the most part, though, Internet Explorer will be put out to pasture in less than 13 months.
Internet Explorer has been part of the Windows fabric for over a quarter of a century. But since the introduction of Edge in 2015, Microsoft has been slowly winding down the old browser. It ended support for previous versions in 2016. Microsoft 365 and other apps will stop supporting IE 11 on August 17th.
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in-service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. New feature development for the browser was discontinued in 2016 in favour of new browser Microsoft Edge.
Internet Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share by 2003. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS that do not support Internet Explorer.
