Internet Explorer, once the most popular web browser, will no longer be accessible for most users.
Google Chrome account for more than 60% of desktop internet usage worldwide, with Internet Explorer and Edge's combined share of the desktop market narrowly falling behind that of Firefox for the first time.Edge retains an inbuilt "IE mode" for developers and those seeking to access legacy applications.access to its legacy desktop browser will be maintained on older versions of Windows, including Windows 8.1, Windows 7 Extended Security Updates and limited versions of Windows 10.
And Internet Explorer's legacy is sure to live on after its retirement, having come pre-installed on Windows computers for more than two decades. In 1995, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the launch of Windows 95 - and Internet Explorer with it - would form part of the technology giant's efforts to ride the "internet tidal wave".
While his vision of "a microcomputer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software" might now seem reminiscent of a bygone era of dial-up internet, Internet Explorer is set to be remembered as one of the key tools that shaped the way the internet is used and accessed even today.
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