After that, the alternative will be Microsoft Edge with IE mode for legacy sites. In addition, Microsoft announced that full support for Internet Explorer would be discontinued on June 15, 2022. Internet Explorer 11 is the last release of the browser. Eventually, in 2015, Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer with Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, but its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008). Internet Explorer, the so-called IE browser, is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
On March 17, 2015, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Edge will replace Internet Explorer as the default browser on its Windows 10 devices. Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on it by 1999. Estimates for Internet Explorer's overall market share range from 5.45% to 27.38% or by StatCounter's numbers ranked 3rd, just after Firefox (or even as low as 6th when counting all platforms, after Opera (and behind Safari), as of August 2016. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox and Google Chrome, and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as macOS, Linux, iOS and Android that do not run Internet Explorer. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 20.
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