
According to a Microsoft commissioned-survey, companies on average use 1,678 legacy apps.Ĭhrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, or Safari: Which Browser Is Best? That’s because a lot of older, enterprise software or websites only work with IE. Google’s Chrome dominates (Opens in a new window) with a nearly 70% share.īut surprisingly, Microsoft has continued bundling Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10, even as the company has been heavily promoting Edge to consumers. It currently holds a measly 3.8% share of the desktop browser space. Originally launched in 1995, the much-maligned Internet Explorer has long been irrelevant in today’s consumer market.

On Wednesday, the company announced (Opens in a new window) the official retirement date: “With Microsoft Edge capable of assuming this responsibility and more, the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10."Īt that point, the IE11 desktop application will be disabled and redirect to Microsoft Edge, the company added in an FAQ (Opens in a new window) about the shutdown.

Microsoft is putting Internet Explorer (mostly) out of its misery in 2022, when the company ends mainstream support for the aging browser.
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