You may love it, you may hate it, but you probably grew up with it. Now, he is gone. The technology giant Microsoft has “withdrawn” its browser in Internet Explorer since Wednesday. The ubiquitous blue and white “e”, sometimes with a gold belt, will disappear from computers around the world and the Internet – at least some of them – is in mourning. “I’m from the generation that started my #online journey in the early 2000s through IE. “IE thank you for expanding my knowledge as a child with the push of a button,” he wrote on a Twitter poster, where #RIPInternetExplorer was a trend. “I’m sorry to see him leave,” one person wrote on Twitter. “The last of the old guard,” said another. Many on the Internet longed for the web browser that was launched in 1995 and was dominant for many years on the Internet by telephone. Others regretted the lack of speed and said goodbye. “I’ll miss using Internet Explorer to download just another browser,” one person said, referring to the popularity of competing browsers such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer will be shut down permanently by Microsoft after 27 years. Thank you for helping us download other web browsers. – Shubhangi Sharma (@ItsShubhangi) June 13, 2022 The decision went into effect on Wednesday, but was announced by Microsoft in a note last year. “The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be withdrawn and disconnected on June 15, 2022, for some versions of Windows 10,” the company said, adding separately that it will continue to support certain Explorer formats. In its place will be “Microsoft Edge”, a browser released in 2015, which he said was “a faster, safer and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer”. It may be comforting to some that “Microsoft Edge has a built-in Internet Explorer feature (‘IE Mode’) so you can access these traditional Internet Explorer-based websites and applications directly from Microsoft Edge,” she said. company. Microsoft enters into an agreement to comply with Activision Blizzard Although it’s the end of an internet age for many, the change will have real-life implications in some countries, most notably Asia, which still rely heavily on Internet Explorer for administrative matters. In Japan, businesses have warned that the change could cause headaches “for months to come”, Nikkei Asia said, citing a Tokyo-based software developer who said it was flooded with requests for help from government agencies and financial institutions. The Japan Times also reported a poll showing that 49 percent of the 350 Japanese companies surveyed in March said they were still using Internet Explorer. In South Korea, fears were also reported about some government agencies using the browser, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Korea Water Resources Corp., local media reported. Amar Nadhir, Min Joo Kim and Michelle Ye Hee Lee contributed to this report.
