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Of course, Edge featured an IE compatibility mode. The original version of Edge was powered by Microsoft’s own EdgeHTML engine, a modification of the MSHTML (also known as Trident), on which Internet Explorer was based. That said, Microsoft’s first official acknowledgment of this fact came only in 2015.īack then, along with unveiling Windows 10, the company announced it was closing down Internet Explorer’s development and introducing Edge as the default browser for Windows, signifying the first phase of IE’s decommissioning. We can consider 2012 as the end of the Explorer era, when Chrome finally overtook it. However, since the introduction of Chrome in 2008, Explorer’s popularity has been steadily falling away. It’s hard to believe it now, but Explorer was even more dominant than the current champion, Google Chrome, is now. We remind those who didn’t witness (or have forgotten) the 2000s that, back then, Internet Explorer ruled the web, with a browser market share of more than 90%. Internet Explorer: life and death chronicles

Let’s recap the long story of how the once most-popular browser in the world was gradually disconnected from its life-support systems, and investigate whether it’s finally time to rejoice (spoiler: it isn’t).

Not so long ago, the IT-security media space was once again full of cheery reports that Microsoft was finally burying Internet Explorer (IE).