Faisal Ghaffar 
Its release in 1995 marked the end of the web’s first broadly used browser, Netscape Navigator. Internet Explorer is, at last, being retired.
Microsoft would no longer sustain the formerly browser which multitudes of internet users adored to hate – as well as some still claim to genuinely love – as of Wednesday. The 27-year-old implementation is in the same category as BlackBerry mobiles, dial-up cable modems, and Palm Aircrews.
The decimation of Internet Explorer wasn’t unexpected. Microsoft announced a year ago that this would phase out Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, rather than directing consumers to its Edge browser, which also debuted in 2015.
The company then stated unequivocally this was time for us to move on.
In a May 2021 blog post, Sean Lyndersay, managing partner of Microsoft Edge Venture, wrote, “So is Microsoft Edge a quicker, more secure, and much more contemporary browsing than Internet Explorer, and it is also capable of addressing a major concern: interoperability for older, prestige web applications.”
On Twitter, users mourned Explorer’s demise, with a few making reference to it as a “bug-ridden, non-secure POS” or even the “best browser for trying to install both these browsers.” Everyone else saw it as an opportunity to post 90s sentimentality memes, whereas The Wall Street Journal cited a 22-year-old who’d been disappointed to see IE go.
Microsoft’s initial release of Internet Explorer in 1995, during the antediluvian era of internet browsing dominated by Internet Explorer, the first massively popular browser. Its release signaled the end of Explorer: Microsoft ended up going on to integrate IE and its pervasive Windows installer so firmly that many people just simply were using it by debtor rather than Navigator.
In 1997, the Department Of Justice sued Microsoft, alleging that it infringed an earlier settlement agreement by requiring computer companies to use its search engine as a situation of just using Windows. In 2002, it reached a settlement the antitrust suit placed above a white and the use of its Windows monopolistic to crush competitors.
It also clashed with European regulators, who claimed that linking Web Browser to Window frames chose to give it an unjustified advantage over competitors like Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera, and Google’s Chrome.
Meanwhile, users complained that Internet Explorer seemed to be slow, prone to crashes, and susceptible to hacker attacks. IE’s share of the market, which was over 90% in the 2000s, started to dwindle as consumers discovered more enticing alternative solutions.
