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. The same survey found just 28% of people used Internet Explorer on their computers, compared with 81% who used Chrome – including 73% of Apple users. A Roy Morgan survey commissioned by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in September 2021 found the browsers people were most aware of were Chrome (95%), followed by Internet Explorer (85%), Firefox (81%), Apple Safari (80%) and Edge (69%). If there is a relic website that still requires Internet Explorer in order to open it, people using the Edge browser will be able to run it in “IE mode”.ĭespite the gradual demise of Internet Explorer, it still has strong brand recognition. The company ended support for Internet Explorer in Teams in 2020, and announced plans to stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 in web browsers in Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 in August 2020. Microsoft has been nudging people away from it in favour of the Edge browser, which was launched in 2015 and is built on Google’s open-source Chromium. 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

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.

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