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Microsoft has held that this is not meaningful; that in Windows 98 and newer versions, "Internet Explorer" is not a separate piece of software but simply a brand name for the web browsing and HTML rendering capacities of the Windows operating system. In this view, the result of removing IE is simply a damaged Windows system; to have a working ...
On February 15, 2005, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7 would be available for Windows XP SP2 and later versions of Windows by mid-2005. [29] The announcement introduced the new version of the browser as a major upgrade over Internet Explorer 6 SP1. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 on October 18, 2006.
Users will still see the Internet Explorer icon on their devices (such as on the Windows taskbar or in the Start menu) but if they click to open IE, Microsoft Edge will open instead with their ...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 (IE2) is the second, and by now discontinued, version of Internet Explorer (IE), a graphical web browser by Microsoft. It was unveiled in October 1995, and was released on November 27, 1995, for Microsoft Windows , and on April 23, 1996, for Apple Macintosh .
The legacy internet browser will no longer be supported as of June 15, 2022, the company said in a blog post announcing the decision.
Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer its default browser, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of nonvoting Apple stock. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement. [11] [12]
The U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally monopolizing the web browser market for Windows, primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java.
• Restore your browser's default settings in Firefox • Restore your browser's default settings in Chrome. While Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL products, it's no longer supported by Microsoft and can't be updated. Because of this, we recommend you download a supported browser for a more reliable and secure experience.