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Internet Explorer gets a tombstone for leaving the web browser world

June 15, 2022 0

The 27s club a.k.a. a group of popular figures who died at the said age has an honorary member: Internet Explorer. While it already threw some hints last year, the web browser officially said goodbye on June 15.

According to a recent blog post, Internet Explorer 11 will now be incompatible with Microsoft products. Users who click the IE icon will be redirected to Microsoft Edge, which is the company’s new modern browser. There’s also an “IE mode” for those who need to access Internet Explorer-based websites and apps, as it helps in transitioning to Edge.

In the future Windows update, IE “will be disabled permanently”, meaning its icon on users’ devices will be removed. The once-popular web browser made its debut on Windows desktop computers in 1995.

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Sean Lyndersay, Microsoft Edge Enterprise General Manager, said in the blog post that IE came from “an older era—quirky in behavior and lacking the security of a modern browser.” He added that its contributions to the web’s evolution have been remarkable.

Lyndersay also gave thanks to the millions of users who used IE. He shared, ‘To work on a product with such broad impact has been nothing but humbling—our story in many ways is the story of the internet and what it has allowed people and organizations around the world to do.’

Meanwhile, people on Twitter shared how they marked Internet Explorer’s last day. Soonson Kwon, a Developer Programs Lead from Google, shared that someone from Korea built a real tombstone for IE. The epitaph read, ‘He was a good tool to download other browsers.’ 

Banner: Twitter/ksoonson

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