Everyone knows the browser, but hardly anyone uses it anymore: Internet Explorer. After 27 years of loyal service, Microsoft will officially pull the plug on the browser in 2022. In recent years, the browser has become less and less used thanks to an increase in popularity of Chrome, Safari and Microsoft Edge. According to Microsoft itself, discontinuing the browser will have major consequences for some companies.
Internet Explorer 11 will be the last version of the famous browser. From June 15, 2022, the browser will no longer be supported by the updates on Windows 10 and there will not be a new version. It was previously announced that the Office 365 apps will no longer work in the browser from August 17, 2021.
The future lies in the successor to Internet Explorer, namely Microsoft Edge, Microsoft writes in a blog . The new browser is not only faster, more secure and more modern, but can also handle old legacy websites and applications better. Within Edge there is a compatibility mode that allows legacy websites and applications that only worked in Explorer to continue to work.
There are large organizations that have an average of 1700 older applications running that only work in Internet Explorer. To prevent these programs from no longer working, Microsoft recommends checking the options in a timely manner. In the long term, the switch to Edge will save companies time.
Internet Explorer was launched on the market in 1995, as part of Windows 95. On Windows versions (98, 2000, XP, etc.) after that, the browser was pre-installed on billions of PCs. Within a few years, the program became the most used browser in the world. The browser is now still used sporadically and the time has come to say goodbye.
