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Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 (IE2) is the second 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 .
Internet Explorer 10 is the tenth major version of Internet Explorer, released on October 26, 2012, and is the default web browser for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. It became available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in February 2013.
Internet Explorer's market share was closely related to Microsoft Windows's market share as it was its default web browser. After the integration of Internet Explorer 2.0 with Windows 95 in 1996, and especially after version 4.0's release in 1997, adoption skyrocketed from below 10% in 1996 [42] to about 40% in 1998 and over 80% in 2000.
The first version of Internet Explorer, (at that time named Microsoft Internet Explorer, later referred to as Internet Explorer 1) made its debut on August 24, 1995. [1] It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic , which Microsoft licensed from Spyglass Inc. , like many other companies initiating browser development.
Internet Explorer 8 was released on 19 March 2009, for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. [42] Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11 were later released, and version 11 is included in Windows 10 , but Microsoft Edge became the default browser there.
Windows Live is a discontinued brand name for a set of web services and software products developed by Microsoft as part of its software-as-a-service platform. Chief components under the brand name included web services (all of which were exposed through corresponding web applications), several computer programs that interact with the services, and specialized web services for mobile devices.
Internet Explorer 3 was the first version of the browser to support SSL 3.0. [32] The last patch versions of Internet Explorer 3 supported 40-bit and 128-bit encryption, using Server Gated Cryptography (SGC). [33] 256-bit encryption would not become available in IE for nearly 10 years. 128-bit encryption was available or included for these ...
The first version of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh operating system was a beta version of Internet Explorer 2.0 for Macintosh, released on January 23, 1996, as a free download from Microsoft's website.