Microsoft Time has called on Internet Explorer, the once popular Internet browser. 15 June 2022 come and internet explorer Will be removed from all versions of Windows 10. In fact, it was surprising that Microsoft was still shipping Explorer in some form.
Google Microsoft has gone a step further and announced that it is pulling the plug on Internet Explorer. According to a report from 9to5Google, “Google has confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 is no longer officially supported by the search engine.” The official reason given is that Internet Explorer makes only a very small percentage of worldwide searches.
However, a Google software engineer took to Twitter to explain that it was indeed ‘time’ to leave it on Internet Explorer. Engineer tweeted, “As a web developer this is one of the happiest announcements in a while: Google search Ended support for IE11 in its main product (you can still search but will get a fallback experience). I’m mostly posting this so you can send it to your boss. We did the math. The time has come.”
Internet Explorer 11 was released by Microsoft in 2013 along with Windows 8.1. This was eventually the final version of the browser released by Microsoft as it replaced microsoft edge in 2015. Interestingly, Edge is built on Google’s Chromium engine. And Microsoft didn’t make Edge available for earlier versions of Windows. So the default browser on devices running Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 was Internet Explorer.
However, Internet Explorer has been on its last lap for quite some time now. Nevertheless, according to StatCounter, Internet Explorer had a 1% share in the desktop browser market in September 2021. It’s probably down to older devices still maintaining Internet Explorer as their default browser. For those users, Google Search won’t work or get a much shorter version, which won’t give them the best of Google.
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