In an official announcement released today, tech giant Microsoft confirmed exactly what most of us were already expecting for a very long time.
In its most recent blog post, Microsoft verified that the existence of its long-enduring browser Internet Explorer will soon be coming to a definitive end, for most Windows 10 versions, that is.Still, it's important to note that the company made this announcement quite early on, sharing the news just slightly over a year in advance.
According to Microsoft's statement, starting on June 15, 2022, its Internet Explorer browser will be retired and no longer supported on most versions of Windows 10.The company made this decision after over 25 years of Internet Explorer's first release, which was originally launched in 1995.
However, Microsoft's now-outdated browser is considered to be irrelevant in today’s consumer market, holding only a very small and shy 3.8% share of the desktop browser space in comparison to Google’s Chrome very large near-70% share.While no definite announcement had been made up to this day, Microsoft's decision was already expected by most people, as just last year, the company had already given everyone a noticeable hint about the end of its Internet Explorer browser.
That was exactly around the time when the company revealed that its Microsoft 365 Office Applications would no longer run on the browser as of August 2021.
Not only that, but during November 2020, the company's Microsoft Teams Web App had also ended support for Internet Explorer 11.Nevertheless, users that still want to use Internet Explorer should know that it will still be possible to use the Internet Explorer(IE) mode found on Microsoft Edge.That said, while most of the currently existing Windows 10 versions will no longer support IE11, Microsoft still mentioned that its browser will not be getting retired from all of them.