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Later versions were available as free downloads, or in service packs, and included in the OEM service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. Originally Microsoft Internet Explorer only ran on Windows using an Intel compatible processor. Current versions also run on x64, 32-bit ARMv7, PowerPC and IA-64.
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Internet Explorer 6 is no longer supported, and is not available for download from Microsoft. It is the last version of Internet Explorer to support Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 98 , Windows 2000 and Windows ME , although it is only supported as included in Windows XP RTM–SP1 and Windows Server 2003 RTM.
Since it is tightly integrated with the operating system, Internet Explorer makes full use of the accessibility framework provided in Windows. Internet Explorer is also a user interface for FTP, with operations similar to that of Windows Explorer. However, with version 7, FTP sites are rendered in a hyper linked page, with the folder-like view ...
On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 10 to the general public (the first full browser incarnation). [26] Although Internet Explorer is the last major web browser among Mozilla Firefox , Google Chrome , Opera , and Safari to support spell checking, it is the first desktop browser on Windows to ...
Every website and download is checked against a local list of popular legitimate websites; if the site is not listed, the entire address is sent to Microsoft for further checks. [45] If it has been labeled as an impostor or harmful, Internet Explorer 8 will show a screen prompting that the site is reported harmful and shouldn't be visited.
On January 6, 1998, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the release of the final version of Internet Explorer version 4.0 for Macintosh.Version 4 includes support for offline browsing, Dynamic HTML, a new faster Java virtual machine and Security Zones that allow users or administrators to limit access to certain types of web content depending on which zone (for example ...
Internet Explorer 9 includes significant alterations to its user interface when compared with previous versions. These include: Pinned Sites: [42] [43] Integrates with the taskbar to make web site experience more like an application where users may "pin" a site and then return to it later like a shortcut.