*formerly ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’ / ‘Windows Internet Explorer’*
(commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE)
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*”internet explorer” is a ‘dis-continued series’ of ‘graphical web browsers’ developed by ‘microsoft’ + included as part of the ‘micro-soft windows’ line of ‘operating systems’, starting in ‘1995’*
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(it was first released as part of the add-on package ‘plus!’ for ‘windows 95’ that year)
(later versions were available as free downloads, or in ‘service packs’, and included in the ‘original equipment manufacturer’ (‘OEM’) service releases of ‘windows 95 and later versions of ‘windows’)
(“internet explorer” was one of the most widely used ‘web browsers’, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during ‘2002’ and ‘2003’)
(this came after ‘microsoft’ used ‘bundling’ to win the first ‘browser war’ against ‘netscape’, which was the dominant browser in the ‘1990s’)
(its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as macOS, Linux, iOS and Android that do not run Internet Explorer)
(estimates for Internet Explorer’s overall market share range from 5.45% to 27.38% or by StatCounter’s numbers ranked 3rd, just after Firefox (or even as low as 6th when counting all platforms, after Opera (and behind Safari)), as of August 2016 (browser market share is notoriously difficult to calculate))
(microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on it by 1999)
(versions of Internet Explorer for other operating systems have also been produced, including Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for UNIX (Solaris and HP-UX), an Xbox 360 version called Internet Explorer for Xbox and an embedded OEM version called Pocket Internet Explorer, later rebranded Internet Explorer Mobile made for Windows Phone, Windows CE, and previously, based on Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Mobile)
(on March 17, 2015, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Edge will replace Internet Explorer as the default browser on its Windows 10 devices)
(this effectively makes Internet Explorer 11 the last release)
(internet Explorer will, however, remain on some versions of Windows 10 primarily for enterprise purposes)
(starting January 12, 2016, only Internet Explorer 11 is supported with more security than older versions, according to Microsoft)
(support varies based on the operating system’s technical capabilities and its support lifecycle)
(the ‘browser’ has been scrutinized throughout its development for use of third-party technology (such as the source code of Spyglass Mosaic, used without royalty in early versions) and security and privacy vulnerabilities, and the United States and the European Union have alleged that integration of Internet Explorer with Windows has been to the detriment of ‘fair browser competition’)
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