Mocked by some and adored by others (who are they?!), Internet Explorer will finally bow out this week. And that’s not a bad thing given his even lower popularity rating than that of a political figure in France.
After 27 years of (not always) good and loyal service, Microsoft’s web browser will disappear definitively this Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The American firm had already announced the news last March by inviting users to turn to Edge without delay. Indeed, the IE11 desktop application will no longer be supported and an automatic redirection to this dear Microsoft Edge will be applied.
It was time for it to end
Joking aside, Internet Explorer was now only the delight of Internet users who spent their time making fun of him on social networks. So much so that a parody account has sprung up on Twitter to laugh at the slowness of the browser… The profile page bringing up old news as if it had just happened. Last April, the site Statcounter explained that barely 0.39% of entries on the web came from Internet Explorer worldwide. An unflattering figure compared to the 64.34% achieved by Chrome.
Suffice to say that no one uses the browser anymore. If there is all the same a little nostalgic side when we talk about him, Internet Explorer should therefore not be mourned at his funeral. We say to him all the same “thank you! » for the nervous breakdowns it gave us with each crash. Good luck friend!
What is the best internet browser? Whether it’s checking emails, reading the news, watching streaming videos or simply doing an online search, the browser is today the most used application on our machines. Initially led by Netscape in 1994, the web browser market was later dominated by Microsoft and Internet Explorer. But for the past ten years, Google has been leading the dance with Chrome adopted by nearly two-thirds of Internet users.
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Source : FranceInfo
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