Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after 26 years
• Users will be redirected to Microsoft’s newer Edge browser
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Wednesday the retirement of web browser Internet Explorer after 26 years.
The customers will be redirected to Microsoft’s newer Edge browser, which is available on mobile devices, Mac and even Linux.
“But the web has evolved and so have browsers. Incremental improvements to Internet Explorer couldn’t match the general improvements to the web at large, so we started fresh,” Sean Lyndersay, a general manager at the company, wrote in a blog post.
Users will still see the Internet Explorer icon on their devices but if they click to open Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge will open instead with easy access to IE mode, the company said.
It added that eventually, Internet Explorer will be disabled permanently as part of a future Windows Update, at which point the Internet Explorer icons on users’ devices will be removed.
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