Internet Explorer caused Microsoft a lot of heat over the years, especially with antitrust issues. Internet Explorer, having been released during a time when America Online and Netscape were dominating the internet, caused the birth of the browser wars. Internet Explorer 1.0 was a mere 1MB in size and didn’t really do too much, except surf the internet — minus the ability to see graphics, access dynamic content, and more.
Internet Explorer 5.0 was rolled out in 1999, while Internet Explorer 6.0 was made available with Windows XP in 2001. Internet Explorer 6 survived nearly six years as the big dog in the yard — mainly because if you purchased a new Windows XP computer, you got Internet Explorer 6.0 too. Internet Explorer 7 was released in 2006, and featured the introduction of tabbed browsing (wow!), support for RSS, and protection against phishing attacks. This is the time when Firefox emerged from the fine people at Mozilla.
Internet Explorer 8.0 was released in 2009, now going head to head against both Mozilla Firefox and Google’s own browser Chrome. Around this time, Microsoft faced issues in Europe about browser bundling and eventually had to offer a “browser ballot” to let consumers decide what browser they wanted to use in Windows 7.
Now in 2015 Microsoft has Microsoft Edge, the Redmond giant’s new browser for Windows 10, having dethroned Internet Explorer as the new browser of choice for Windows. Even the Trident engine has been forked into something new called EdgeHTML. After 20 years of service, Internet Explorer is finally retired.
Source:WinBeta
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