From June 15, the PC app will be disabled and users will be redirected to Microsoft Edge Browser. Internet Explorer was the gateway for people born before Generation Z, at a time when Microsoft dominated the tech world, before Google, Facebook and TikTok, and when the browser had to be installed on computers using CD-roms. Microsoft’s market dominance arose from the grouping of software as part of the Windows operating system. The experience was often sluggish, and when it came to the fastest competition with Mozilla Firefox and later Google Chrome, people jumped in series. Although market-leading Chrome suffers from the same problems that plagued Internet Explorer, moving away from the need for older browser support will be a relief for web developers. I haven’t been a web developer in a long time, but the last time I did, having to support IE6 in a world where Firefox existed was a source of constant frustration. The glorious days of IE were 1998, connecting by phone, the first Internet experience, learning manual HTML coding for fun… – Cameron Patrick (@camjpatrick) June 15, 2022 In a submission to an Australian competition regulator reviewing the web browser market, Microsoft said its decision to abandon Internet Explorer was largely due to the fact that web developers were less likely to make their sites compatible with Internet Explorer. The submission said that “after years of trying to address incompatibilities with different sites – including some of the most popular on the Internet”, the company finally decided that continuing to differentiate itself from Chrome with a unique proprietary web platform “no longer makes sense” . Chances are you haven’t used Internet Explorer for many years – or never. Microsoft is pushing people to turn it away in favor of the Edge browser, which was released in 2015 and is built on Google’s open source Chromium. The company ended support for Internet Explorer on Teams in 2020 and announced plans to end support for Internet Explorer 11 in web browsers on Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 in August 2020. If there is a site that still requires Internet Explorer to open it, people using the Edge browser will be able to run it in “IE mode”. Despite the gradual collapse of Internet Explorer, it still has strong recognition of its name. A survey by Roy Morgan commissioned by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in September 2021 found that the most popular browsers were Chrome (95%), followed by Internet Explorer (85%) and Firefox (81%). %) and Apple Safari (80%)) and Edge (69%). The same survey found that only 28% of people used Internet Explorer on their computers, compared with 81% using Chrome – including 73% of Apple users. The main reason people gave for using Internet Explorer was that it was pre-installed on their computer and there was no reason to use another browser. While Windows web browsing may have been an advantage for Microsoft in the past, the company said people now knew other options, and on desktops, Microsoft Edge has only a 9% market share.
