The end of life for Internet Explorer is just around the corner
During the past several decades Microsoft has used Windows popularity to set its Internet Explorer browser as the web browsing standard. 20 years ago, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer practically held the entire market, but about a decade later with the release of the Google web browser, Internet Explorer usage started to rapidly decline.
During that time, users were expecting more from their browsers, while Microsoft hesitated to add new and modern features to IE. Until mid of 2012, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was still holding half of the market with Google Chrome, but then a huge migration from IE to Google Chrome happened.
Even though Microsoft started updating and adding more features to Internet Explorer more regularly it was already too late. With the release of the Windows 10 operating system Microsoft has released the Edge browser which was even worse than Internet Explorer. Just recently, the company made the right move and realized that their Edge browser has to be built on the same open-source Chromium code as Google Chrome. After the change, the new Chromium Edge started gaining popularity among customers.
The upcoming deadline on June 15th is not just the end of support, but the time when Microsoft will actively disable Internet Explorer on Windows 10 systems. As Windows 10 comes with Chromium-Edge browser pre-installed, customers will have an option to use it or try other available browsers.
