There’s a good chance you haven’t used Internet Explorer in many years – or ever. The submission said that “after years of attempting to address incompatibilities as they arose with different websites – including some of the most popular ones on the Internet” the company eventually decided that continuing to differentiate from Chrome with a unique proprietary web platform “no longer made sense”. In a submission to an Australian competition regulator’s review of the web browser market, Microsoft said its decision to abandon Internet Explorer was largely due to the fact web developers were less likely to make their sites compatible with Internet Explorer.
The glory days of IE were 1998, dial-up, first ever experience of the internet, learning to hand-code HTML for fun…- Cameron Patrick June 15, 2022 But short of not having Edge installed on their PC, there’s little way for consumers to avoid the move.I haven’t done any web dev for a very long time, but last time I did, having to support IE6 in a world where Firefox existed was a source of constant frustration. As always, IT administrators will have some say in the matter. This IE behavior is part of Microsoft’s plan to deprecate the browser finally. According to StatCounter, as of September 2020, IE has a 1.19 percent share of the worldwide browser market. However, like older versions of Android, there’s still a small but sizeable contingent of people who continue to use the software to navigate the internet. “If you come across a site that needs Internet Explorer, you can load that site in Internet Explorer mode without ever leaving Microsoft Edge.”įour years after Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10, you might think the browser is a non-entity. “You've been redirected to Microsoft Edge where you can continue your browsing uninterrupted,” the company says on the page. When you navigate to one that Microsoft would prefer you not visit through IE, you’ll see the following support page. IE loads the file through a plugin, which then monitors what websites you’re visiting through the browser. The list is held on a DLL file Microsoft has been adding to Edge installations over the summer. Instead, they’ll be promoted to go to those websites using Microsoft’s more modern, Chromium-based browser. When the company releases the next version of its Edge browser, currently slated to come out sometime in November, Internet Explorer users won’t be able to access some 1,156 websites, including popular destinations like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and ESPN. Microsoft may have finally devised a way to get people to stop using Internet Explorer once and for all (via ZDNet).
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