The practice effectively killed the use of rival browser Netscape Navigator between 19, the judge found. Alamy Stock PhotoĪt its peak in the late ‘90s, the domination of Explorer was central to the government’s antitrust crackdown on Microsoft.Ī federal judge ruled that Microsoft violated antitrust law by tying Explorer to its Windows operating system software. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser launched in 1995. It marks a steep fall for Explorer - which was the dominant browser for over a decade after its launch in 1995. By comparison, Google’s Chrome has a 65 percent share of the market, followed by Apple’s Safari with an 18 percent share Internet Explorer was once a dominant player in the early days of the internet, but has gradually faded as other tech giants rolled out web browsers such as Chrome from Google and Apple’s Safari.Īs of April, Explorer holds less than 2 percent of the global browser market for desktop computers, according to web analytics firm Statcounter. “The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.”
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“We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” said Sean Lyndersay, a Microsoft Edge program manager. Instead, Microsoft said it’s shifting focus to web browser Edge, which it launched in 2015.
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