Microsoft Will Say A Final Goodbye To Internet Explorer On June 15

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The browser was no longer the company's main one, which now uses Edge (and which has the same engine as Chrome), but it was still available; the first version was born in 1995 to accompany Windows 95

The browser was no longer the company’s main one, which now uses Edge (and which has the same engine as Chrome), but it was still available; the first version was born in 1995 to accompany Windows 95

The first version of Internet Explorer was born in 1995 to accompany Windows 95; In 2015, the company replaced that browser with Edge, which uses the same software like Google Chrome. Shutterstock – Shutterstock

Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11, the latest available version of its browser, this Wednesday, June 15, to exclusively offer Microsoft Edge, its current browser. The first version of Internet Explorer dates back to 1995 when Microsoft came out to compete with Netscape Navigator (the predecessor to Firefox).

The company announced the end of support for Internet Explorer by its Microsoft 365 online ecosystem services in May last year, when it indicated that the browser’s desktop app would no longer be supported for certain versions of Windows 10.

“With Microsoft Edge, we provide a path to the future of the web while respecting the past of the web. The change was necessary, but we did not want to leave behind applications and sites that were reliable and still work”, he said then.

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In the statement that made the end of Internet Explorer official, updated at the end of last May, he explained that Edge not only offered greater security and was more modern than its predecessor, but also guaranteed “compatibility with websites and applications old and inherited from other programs”. Edge is based on the same software like Chrome, so it works similarly.

“Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode (“IE mode”) built in, so you can access those older Internet Explorer-based websites and apps right from Microsoft Edge,” Microsoft said.

In this update, he also pointed out that the latest available version of his browser would no longer be able to be used as of June 15 to make way for Microsoft Edge as the main web browser developed by Microsoft.

Likewise, the company highlighted that, compared to the monthly security updates characteristic of Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge is capable of issuing security patches for immediate vulnerabilities “in a matter of days, if not hours.”

The withdrawal of support for Internet Explorer 11 will not affect server-based browser applications or the Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) or the Trident MSHTML engine.