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Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

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 17, 1995. It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic, which Microsoft licensed from Spyglass Inc., like many other companies initiating browser development. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. 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 Intel 80386 (IA-32) processor. Current versions also run on x64, 32-bit ARMv7, PowerPC and IA-64. Versions on Windows have supported MIPS, Alpha AXP and 16-bit and 32-bit x86 but currently support only 32-bit or 64-bit. A version exists for Xbox 360 called Internet Explorer for Xbox using PowerPC and an embedded OEM version called Pocket Internet Explorer, later rebranded Internet Explorer Mobile, which is currently based on Internet Explorer 9 and made for Windows Phone using ARMv7, Windows CE, and previously, based on Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Mobile. It remains in development alongside the desktop versions.

Internet Explorer has supported other operating systems with Internet Explorer for Mac (using Motorola 68020+, PowerPC) and Internet Explorer for UNIX (Solaris using SPARC and HP-UX using PA-RISC), which have been discontinued.

Since its first release, Microsoft has added features and technologies such as basic table display (in version 1.5); XMLHttpRequest (in version 5), which adds creation of dynamic web pages; and Internationalized Domain Names (in version 7), which allow Web sites to have native-language addresses with non-Latin characters. The browser has also received scrutiny throughout its development for use of third-party technology (such as the source code of Spyglass Mosaic, used without royalty in early versions) and security and privacy vulnerabilities, and both the United States and the European Union have alleged that integration of Internet Explorer with Windows has been to the detriment of other browsers.

The latest stable release has an interface allowing for use as both a desktop application, and as a Windows 8 application.

OS compatibility[]

IE versions, over time, have had widely varying OS compatibility, ranging from being available for many platforms and several versions of Windows to only a few versions of Windows. Many versions of IE had some support for an older OS but stopped getting updates. The increased growth of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s means that current browsers with small market shares have more total users than the entire market early on. For example, 90% market share in 1997 would be roughly 60 million^[1] users, but by the start of 2007 90% market share would equate to over 900 million users.^[1] The result is that later versions of IE6 had many more users in total than all the early versions put together.

The release of IE7 at the end of 2006 resulted in a collapse of IE6 market share; by February 2007, market version share statistics showed IE6 at about 50% and IE7 at 29%.^[2] Regardless of the actual market share, the most compatible version (across operating systems) of IE was 5.x, which had Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, Unix, and most Windows versions available and supported for a short period in the late 1990s (although 4.x had a more unified codebase across versions). By 2007, IE had much narrower OS support, with the latest versions supporting only Windows XP Service Pack 2 and above. Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 (Experimental) have also been unofficially ported to the Linux operating system from the project IEs4Linux.

Availability on desktop operating systems

Versions[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.x[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 made its debut on August 16, 1995. It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft had licensed,^[3][4] like many other companies initiating browser development, from Spyglass Inc.^[3][4] It came with the purchase of Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 and with at least some OEM releases of Windows 95 without Plus!.^[5] It was installed as part of the Internet Jumpstart Kit in Plus! for Windows 95.^[6] The Internet Explorer team began with about six people in early development.^[7][8] Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.5 was released several months later for Windows NT and added support for basic HTML table rendering. By including it free of charge on their operating system, they did not have to pay royalties to Spyglass Inc, resulting in a lawsuit and a US$8 million settlement on January 22, 1997.^[3][4]

Although not included, this software can also be installed on the original release of Windows 95.

Microsoft Internet Explorer (that is version 1.x) is no longer supported, or available for download from Microsoft. However, archived versions of the software can be found on various websites. Support for Internet Explorer 1.0 Ended on December 31, 2001, the same day as Windows 95 and older Windows versions.

Features[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer came with an install routine replacing a manual installation required by many of the existing web browsers.^[9]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 2[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 was released for Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, and NT 4.0 on November 22, 1995 (following a 2.0 beta in October). It featured support for JavaScript, SSL, cookies, frames, VRML, RSA, and Internet newsgroups. Version 2 was also the first release for Windows 3.1 and Macintosh System 7.0.1 (PPC or 68k), although the Mac version was not released until January 1996 for PPC, and April for 68k.^[10] Version 2.1 for the Mac came out in August 1996, although by this time, Windows was getting 3.0. Version 2 was included in Windows 95 OSR 1 and Microsoft’s Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 in early 1996.^[11] It launched with twelve languages, including English, but by April 1996, this was expanded to 24, 20, and 9 for Win 95, Win 3.1, and Mac, respectively.^[11] The 2.0i version supported double-byte character-set.^[11]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 was released on August 13, 1996 and went on to be much more popular than its predecessors. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 was the first major browser with CSS support, although this support was only partial. It also introduced support for ActiveX controls, Java applets, inline multimedia, and the PICS system for content metadata. Version 3 also came bundled with Internet Mail and News, NetMeeting, and an early version of the Windows Address Book, and was itself included with Windows 95 OSR 2. Version 3 proved to be the first more popular version of Internet Explorer, bringing with it increased scrutiny. In the months following its release, a number of security and privacy vulnerabilities were found by researchers and hackers. This version of Internet Explorer was the first to have the ‘blue e’ logo.^[6] The Internet Explorer team consisted of roughly 100 people during the development of three months.^[13] The first major IE security hole, the Princeton Word Macro Virus Loophole, was discovered on August 22, 1996 in IE3.^[14]

Backwards compatibility was handled by allowing users who upgraded to IE3 to still use the previous version, because the installation renamed the old version (incorporating the old version number) and stored it in the same directory.^[15]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, released in September 1997, deepened the level of integration between the web browser and the underlying operating system. Installing version 4 on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 and choosing Windows Desktop Update would result in the traditional Windows Explorer being replaced by a version more akin to a web browser interface, as well as the Windows desktop itself being web-enabled via Active Desktop. The integration with Windows, however, was subject to numerous packaging criticisms (see United States v. Microsoft). This option was no longer available with the installers for later versions of Internet Explorer, but was not removed from the system if already installed. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 introduced support for Group Policy, allowing companies to configure and lock down many aspects of the browser’s configuration as well as support for offline browsing.^[17] Internet Mail and News was replaced with Outlook Express, and Microsoft Chat and an improved NetMeeting were also included. This version was also included with Windows 98. New features that allowed users to save and retrieve posts in comment forms were added, but they are not used today. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 offered new features such as easier 128-bit encryption. It also offered a dramatic stability improvement over prior versions, particularly the 68k version, which was especially prone to freezing.^[18][19][20]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5[]

Main article: Internet Explorer 5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, launched on March 18, 1999, and subsequently included with Windows 98 Second Edition and bundled with Office 2000, was another significant release that supported bi-directional text, ruby characters, XML, XSLT, and the ability to save web pages in MHTML format. IE5 was bundled with Outlook Express 5. Also, with the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft released the first version of XMLHttpRequest, giving birth to Ajax (even though the term «Ajax» was not coined until years later). It was the last with a 16-bit version. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, a bug fix version included in Windows 2000, was released in December 1999 and it is the last version of Internet Explorer to run on Windows 3.1x and Windows NT 3.x. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 followed in June 2000, improving its print preview capabilities, CSS and HTML standards support, and developer APIs; this version was bundled with Windows ME. However, version 5 was the last version for Mac and UNIX. Version 5.5 was the last to have Compatibility Mode, which allowed Microsoft Internet Explorer 4^[21] to be run side by side with the 5.x series.^[6][22] The IE team consisted of over 1,000 people by 1999, with funding on the order of Template:USD per year.^[8][13] Version 5.5 is also the last version of Internet Explorer to run on Windows 95 and all Windows NT 4.0 versions newer than SP2, but except SP6a. The next version, Internet Explorer 6, will only support Windows NT 4.0 SP6a or later.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6[]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 24, 2001, a few months before Windows XP. This version included DHTML enhancements, content restricted inline frames, and partial support of CSS level 1, DOM level 1, and SMIL 2.0.^[23] The MSXML engine was also updated to version 3.0. Other new features included a new version of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK), Media bar, Windows Messenger integration, fault collection, automatic image resizing, P3P, and a new look-and-feel that was in line with the Luna visual style of Windows XP, when used in Windows XP. Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, which offered several security enhancements, coincided with the Windows XP SP1 patch release and it is the last version of Internet Explorer compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me. In 2002, the Gopher protocol was disabled, and support for it was dropped in Internet Explorer 7.^[24] Internet Explorer 6.0 SV1^[25] came out on August 6, 2004 for Windows XP SP2 and offered various security enhancements and new colour buttons on the user interface. Internet Explorer 6 updated the original ‘blue e’ logo to a lighter blue and more 3D look.^[6] Microsoft now considers IE6 to be an obsolete product and recommends that users upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Some corporate IT users have not upgraded despite this, in part because some still use Windows 2000, which will not run Internet Explorer 7 or above.^[26] Microsoft has launched a website, ie6countdown.com (archived on March 4, 2011), with the goal of getting Internet Explorer 6 usage to drop below 1 percent worldwide. Its usage is 6% globally as of October 2012, and now about 6.3% since June 2013, and depending on the country, the usage differs heavily: while the usage in Norway is 0.1%, it is 21.3% in the People’s Republic of China.^[27] On January 3, 2012, Microsoft announced that usage of IE6 in the United States had dropped below 1%.^[28][29]

Windows Internet Explorer 7[]

Windows Internet Explorer 7 was released on October 18, 2006. It includes bug fixes, enhancements to its support for web standards, tabbed browsing with tab preview and management, a multiple-engine search box, a web feeds reader, Internationalized Domain Name support (IDN), Extended Validation Certificate support, and an anti-phishing filter. With IE7, Internet Explorer has been decoupled from the Windows Shell—unlike previous versions, the Internet Explorer ActiveX control is not hosted in the Windows Explorer process, but rather runs in a separate Internet Explorer process. It is included with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and is available for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and later. It is the last version of Internet Explorer to run on Windows Server 2003 SP1, as the next version, Internet Explorer 8, runs only on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The original release of Internet Explorer 7 required the computer to pass a Windows Genuine Advantage validation check prior to installing, but on October 5, 2007, Microsoft removed this requirement. As some statistics show, by mid-2008, Internet Explorer 7 market share exceeded that of Internet Explorer 6 in a number of regions.^[30][31]

Windows Internet Explorer 8[]

Windows Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009. It is the first version of IE to pass the Acid2 test, and the last of the major browsers to do so (in the later Acid3 Test, it only scores 24/100.). According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support were its priorities for IE8.^[32][33]

Internet Explorer 8 is the last version of Internet Explorer to run on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 RTM and Windows Vista versions older than SP2; the following version, Internet Explorer 9, works only on Windows Vista SP2 or later and Windows Server 2008 SP2 or later.^[34][35] Support for Internet Explorer 8 is bound to the lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on as it is considered an OS component, thus it is unsupported on Windows XP due to the end of extended support for the latter in April 2014. Effective January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer 8 is no longer supported on any client or server version of Windows, due to new policies specifying that only the newest version of IE available for a supported version of Windows will be supported.^[36][37] However several Windows Embedded versions will remain supported until their respective EOL, unless otherwise specified.^[38]

Windows Internet Explorer 9[]

Windows Internet Explorer 9 was released on March 14, 2011.^[39] Development for Internet Explorer 9 began shortly after the release of Internet Explorer 8.^[40] Microsoft first announced Internet Explorer 9 at PDC 2009, and spoke mainly about how it takes advantage of hardware acceleration in DirectX to improve the performance of web applications and quality of web typography. At MIX 10, Microsoft showed and publicly released the first Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 9, a frame for IE9’s engine not containing any UI of the browser. Leading up to the release of the final browser, Microsoft released updated platform previews, each featuring improved JavaScript compiling (32-bit version), improved scores on the Acid3 test, as well as additional HTML5 standards support, approximately every six weeks. Ultimately, eight platform previews were released. The first public beta was released at a special event in San Francisco, which was themed around «the beauty of the web». The release candidate was released on February 10, 2011, and featured improved performance, refinements to the UI, and further standards support. The final version was released during the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, on March 14, 2011.^[39]

Internet Explorer 9 is only supported on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2.^[41] It is the last version of Internet Explorer to run on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM and Windows Phone 7.5; as the next version, Internet Explorer 10 supports only Windows 7 SP1 or later and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later. It supports several CSS 3 properties (including border-radius, box-shadow, etc.), and embedded ICC v2 or v4 colour profiles support via Windows Color System. The 32-bit version has faster JavaScript performance, this being due to a new JavaScript engine called «Chakra».^[42] It also features hardware accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware-accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite, hardware-accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XPS print pipeline.^[43] IE9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Web Open Font Format.^[44] Internet Explorer 9 initially scored 95/100 on the Acid3 test, but has scored 100/100 since the test was updated in September 2011.^[45]

Internet Explorer was to be omitted from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in Europe, but Microsoft ultimately included it, with a browser option screen allowing users to select any of several web browsers (including Internet Explorer).^{[46][47][48][49][50]}

Internet Explorer is now available on Xbox 360 with Kinect support, as of October 2012.^[51]

Internet Explorer 10[]

Internet Explorer 10 became generally available on October 26, 2012, alongside Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, but is by now supported on Windows Server 2012, while Windows Server 2012 R2 only supports Internet Explorer 11. It became available for Windows 7 on February 26, 2013.^[52] Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 10 in April 2011, at MIX 11 in Las Vegas, releasing the first Platform Preview at the same time. At the show, it was said that Internet Explorer 10 was about three weeks in development.^[53] This release further improves upon standards support, including HTML5 Drag & Drop and CSS3 gradients. Internet Explorer 10 drops support for Windows Vista and will only run on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and later.^[54]
Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview was also released on the Windows 8 Release Preview platform.

Internet Explorer 11[]

Internet Explorer 11 is featured in a Windows 8.1 update which was released on October 17, 2013. It includes an incomplete mechanism for syncing tabs. It features a major update to its developer tools,^[55][56] enhanced scaling for high DPI screens,^[57] HTML5 prerender and prefetch,^[58] hardware-accelerated JPEG decoding,^[59] closed captioning, HTML5 full screen,^[60] and is the first Internet Explorer to support WebGL^[61][62][63] and Google’s protocol SPDY (starting at v3).^[64] This version of IE has features dedicated to Windows 8.1, including cryptography (WebCrypto),^[55] adaptive bitrate streaming (Media Source Extensions)^[65] and Encrypted Media Extensions.^[60]

Internet Explorer 11 was made available for Windows 7 users to download on November 7, 2013, with Automatic Updates in the following weeks.^[66]

Internet Explorer 11’s user agent string now identifies the agent as «Trident» (the underlying browser engine) instead of «MSIE». It also announces compatibility with Gecko (the browser engine of Firefox).

Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer 11, running the WebKit SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, was the fastest browser as of October 15, 2013.^[67]

Since January 12, 2016, only the most recent version of Internet Explorer offered for installation on any given Windows operating system is supported with security updates, lasting until the end of the support lifecycle for that Windows operating system. On Windows 7 and 8.1, only Internet Explorer 11 received security updates until the end of those Windows versions’ support lifecycles.^[68] Support for Internet Explorer 11 is bound to the lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on as it is considered an OS component, thus it is unsupported on Windows 7 due to the end of extended support on January 14, 2020. Internet Explorer 11 was made available for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard in April 2019. It is the only supported version of Internet Explorer on these operating systems since January 31, 2020.^[69][70]

Internet Explorer 11 follows the OS component lifecycle,^[71] which means it remains supported with technical and security fixes while operating systems including it as a component are shipped. This means that there is no date for end of support for Internet Explorer 11.^[72] On August 17, 2020, Microsoft published a timeline indicating that the Microsoft Teams product would stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 on November 30, 2020, and Microsoft 365 products will end Internet Explorer 11 support on August 17, 2021.^[73] In May 2021, Microsoft announced that support for Internet Explorer 11 on editions of Windows 10 that are not in the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) will end on June 15, 2022.^[74] Internet Explorer 11 will not be supported on any editions of Windows 11, as a separate application, but it is supported, as IE mode in Edge, including on Windows 11.^[75] Microsoft is committed to support Internet Explorer that way to 2029 at least, with one years notice before it discontinued.^[76] The IE mode «uses the Trident MSHTML engine»,^[77] i.e. the rendering code of Internet Explorer.

Release history for desktop Windows OS version[]

• Service packs are not included unless significant.

See also[]

• Internet Explorer
• Features of Internet Explorer
• History of Internet Explorer

References[]

Further reading[]

External links[]

• Internet Explorer version history at Wikipedia

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is a free web browser from Microsoft.

Internet Explorer
was released in 1995 and is one of the most popular browsers today.

Download Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer Statistics

The following figures are based on W3Schools’ users, and are extracted from our Browser Statistics:

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge was released on July 29, 2015.

Microsoft Edge replaced Internet Explorer as the default browser on Windows
10. It is also the default browser in Windows 10 for smartphones and tablets.
Edge is exclusive to Windows 10 and cannot be used on previous Windows versions.

Microsoft Edge is designed to be a lightweight web browser with a layout
engine built around web standards, and Microsoft has committed to updating Edge
to embrace new and existing standards that it does not yet support.

Internet Explorer 11

For Windows 8.1: Internet Explorer 11 was released on October 17, 2013.

For Windows 7: Internet Explorer 11 was released on November 7, 2013.

New features:

• Performance improvements
• All new F12 Developer Tools
• WebGL support
• High DPI support
• CSS3 border-image support
• CSS Flexbox support
• Supports SPDY (on Windows 8.1 only)
• Supports Full Screen and Orientation APIs
• Enhanced support for users on touch-based devices
• JavaScript enhancements
• DOM mutation observers
• Web
  Cryptography API
• Video text track support
• Encrypted media support
• Improved HTML editor

IE 11 REMOVED FEATURES:

• document.all is deprecated (code that checks for its
  presence will not detect it, but code that actually uses it will continue to
  work)
• attachEvent
• Quick tabs (CTRL+Q)
• «Work offline» command removed from File menu
• Drag and drop of selected content from IE to other programs like
  Word
• Use large icons for command buttons
• The ability to view all cookies at once in Developer Tools

IE 11 is fast and standards compliant. However, its major drawback is that it
does not run on OS versions earlier than Windows 7 and does not offer syncing
for that OS!

Internet Explorer 10

Internet Explorer 10 was released on September 4, 2012, and is the
default browser in Windows 8.

In February 2013, Internet Explorer 10 became available for download to all
Windows 7 SP1 users.

New features:

• 20% faster than IE9
• Updated support for HTML5 — Now supports async attribute in
  <script> tag, AppCache API, channel messaging, drag and drop API, history,
  parsing, Sandbox, Spellcheck, video, Web Workers, and WebSockets
• Updated support for CSS3 — Now supports transforms, animation,
  fonts, gradients, transitions, text-shadow, and removal of style sheet
  limits
• Updated support for the DOM — Now supports advanced hit-testing
  APIs, media query listeners, XMLHttpRequest enhancements, and pointer and
  gesture events
• Updated support for SVG — Now supports SVG and filters
• Updated support for Indexed Database API
• Integrated spell checking and auto-correct features
• Adobe Flash Integration — Includes a built-in Adobe
  Flash Player
• Added functionality for touch screen users — Full
  screen touch browsers
• Flip Ahead — Quickly move to the next page in a website
  with a swipe gesture on touch screen devices
• New user agent string — Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE
  10.0; Windows NT 6.2; [platform token] Trident/6.0; Touch)

IE 10 NO LONGER supports the following:

• XML data islands
• VML (Vector Markup Language)
• HTC (Element behaviors and HTML components)
• DX filters (DirectX-based filters/transitions)
• Conditional comments (conditional statements
  interpreted by IE in HTML source code, like: <!—[if IE 6]>. Used to provide
  and hide code to and from IE)
• Content advisor (taken over by Windows Parental
  Controls)

Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 was released in March 2011.

New features:

• Revamped Interface — Gives you the basic controls and puts the
  focus on site viewing
• Breezing Fast Speed — IE9 is much faster than its previous IE
  versions. Hardware-accelerated text, video and graphics speed up
  performance that makes websites perform like programs installed on your
  computer. Also, IE9 uses video card to make everything faster
• Pin Websites To Windows 7 Taskbar — Microsoft have partnership
  with sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pandora which allows you to see
  own taskbar complete with jumplist support
• Unified Address Bar — The address bar is a unified box for
  navigating the site or start a search
• Redesigned New Tab Page — Gives a quick access to the sites you
  visit often. You can also reopen closed tabs, or your
  last browsing session, or start a new InPrivate browsing session
• Improved Add-on Management — A new feature called Add-on
  Performance Adviser gives you an idea about which add-on is slowing down
  your browsers and allows you to remove it
• Better Privacy Features — The tracking protection feature enables
  you to limit the sites that can track your information
• Better HTML5/CSS3 Support — IE9 also supports SVG and
  Canvas graphics
• New Download Manager — Allows you to view files that are
  downloading through your browser, and notifies when a file is
  malicious or contains viruses. It also helps you to pause any of the
  download and resume it later.
• Enhanced Tab Management — You can easily move tabs between
  windows by tearing them from one window to another. After
  placing your tab in a new windows it won’t reload the page.

Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 was released in March 2009.

New features:

• Accelerators — quick access to web services. E.g. On a restaurant web site,
  click within the page to get maps, news, information, or share it on Facebook
• Web Slice — keep up with changes to the sites you care about most
• Compatibility View — shows the page as in IE7
• Search Suggestions — get suggested content as you type
• New Tab features — reopen accidentally closed tabs,
  and group related tabs together with color codes
• Tab isolation — prevents a faulty web site from crashing the
  whole browser. Only the tab with the error will close
• InPrivate Browsing — browse the web without saving any data
  (like passwords, cookies, browsing history, etc.)
• SmartScreen Filter — protects you against installation of malware, or
  malicious software which can compromise your data, privacy, and identity,
  and also damaging your computer and valuable data

IE 8 has full support for CSS 2.1. In addition, it
has fixed many cross-browser inconsistencies such as get/set/removeAttribute,
default attributes, Attribute object and the <q> tag.

Internet Explorer 7

Internet Explorer 7.0 was released in November 2006. IE7 was the standard
browser in Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

New features:

• Advanced printing — automatically scales a webpage for printing
• Instant Search box
• Favorites Center
• RSS feeds — automatically detects RSS feeds
• Tabbed browsing — view multiple sites in a single browser window
• Quick Tabs
• Tab Groups
• Page zoom

Internet Explorer for Macintosh

Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31,
2005.

Mac
users are recommended to use other browsers, such as
Apple Safari.

Older Internet Explorer Versions

IE 6.0 (released in 2001). Was the standard browser in Windows XP.

IE 5.5 (released in 2000) Support for XML/XSL,
CSS, print preview and HTC behaviors.

IE 5.0 (released in 1999) The first major browser with XML support.

IE 4.0 (released in 1997). Support for CSS and DOM.

IE 3.0 (released in 1996) is now used by less than 0.1%.

IE 2.0 (released in 1995). It is too old. Nobody uses it.

IE 1.0 (released in 1995). Does anyone remember it?

Microsoft Internet Explorer Resources

Microsoft’s Support
Site
Microsoft’s support website has a searchable knowledge database, articles, forums,
and tutorials full of solutions and tips for a better experience.

Internet Explorer (IE) was Microsoft’s premiere internet browser that was released back in 1995. It enjoyed a long lifespan of 27 years before going out of service in June 2022.

The web browser has a reputation for doing a poor job at surfing the internet and protecting its users. That reputation was further compounded on by superior options like Firefox and Google Chrome.

Since then, Microsoft has moved on to the more recent Edge web browser and recommends that people do so. However, there are some out there who prefer to stick with the tried and true instead of upgrading.

The spirit of Internet Explorer lives on the internet, however. You can still download it, just not officially.

What is the latest IE browser version?

According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10 is the latest version of the internet browser that saw a release and support, but it’s only available for specific versions of the operating system.

The last IE 11 version is available on Windows 10 1903 and 1909. These operating systems also include the more specialized versions like Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise.

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Going through that web page, you will also see IE 11 on other versions of Windows 10, plus a version of the browser for Windows Server 2019 and even Windows 7. The reason you see these browsers on that page is that they are the ones that got the most updates.

Windows Server, for those unaware, is a special type of operating system that’s meant for “enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.” Companies use this for their computer servers.

It’s not something the everyday person can get their hands on. All that said, the question remains: can you still use Internet Explorer in 2022? The answer is yes if you still have a computer with the browser on it.

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Microsoft strongly recommends that you upgrade to the newer Edge browser, and so do we. Not because of Edge’s features, but because of protection against malware. Bad actors are out there constantly making new forms of malware and improving upon it.

It’s possible that they’ll create malware that IE 10, for example, can’t protect against, if they haven’t already. Microsoft Edge comes with new security tools and is much better protected against malware

Using an outdated browser that no longer has official support from Microsoft is putting your computer at great risk of getting infected by malware.

Quick tip:

Since IE is quite an outdated browser and has no recent updates, you should think of switching your browser. Opera offers fast performance and has a free VPN where you can browse comfortably with increased privacy and security.

Another appreciable feature is the built-in ad blocker to browse with fewer distractions. On top of that, you can browse with a virtual IP address that helps hide your location and also lets you view the web with amplified online privacy within the mobile and desktop Opera browser.

How many versions of Internet Explorer are there?

Technically speaking, there are 11 major versions of Internet Explorer in the world, assuming there is a very old computer out there running the original IE browser from 1995.

Fantasies aside, the most recently updated versions of the web browser are Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10, Windows Server, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7, as briefly mentioned earlier. Microsoft also lists Internet Explorer 9 RTM as having gotten an update.

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RTM stands for Release To Manufacturing and this version of IE9 is simply the latest release of it. It can be used to block ActiveX controls on all websites you visit. ActiveX is used to render multimedia content but is prone to errors. It’s software that rarely gets updated.

Officially speaking, you cannot download Internet Explorer, only Microsoft Edge. We also don’t recommend downloading any Internet Explorer files you find on the internet.

You may come across a Google Search listing that states you can download IE 11 here. Those websites tend to be filled with malware and downloading a file can get you infected.

Plus, IE 11 for Windows Server isn’t available to the public, and companies that use a web browser utilize Edge instead. Internet Explorer for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 is available to download. The same goes for Internet Explorer 9 RTM.

Windows 11 doesn’t natively support IE, but there is an option that will be covered later.

1. Downloading Internet Explorer 11

1. Start by going to the Internet Explorer 11 downloads page.
2. Click the Download button.
   

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3. Go to the downloaded file’s location and double click to begin installation.
   

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4. A window may appear asking you if you want to make changes. Select Yes.
   

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5. A window will appear telling you that Internet Explorer 11 has customized settings. Click Install.
   

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6. The installation will happened rather quickly. A window will appear telling you that Windows 10 must restart before using it. Click Restart now.
   

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7. Click on the search bar, bring up Internet Explorer, and click it to open the browser.
   

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2. Activating IE Mode

1. For Windows 11, open Microsoft Edge and click the three dots in the upper right hand corner.
2. In the menu that appears, click Settings.
   

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3. Click the Default browser entry on the left hand side.
   

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4. In this tab, click the blue question mark to learn more about Internet Explorer mode.
   

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5. To turn the mode on, click the drop down menu to the right of the page.
6. You can choose Always, Never, or Incompatible site only. The final choice is for legacy websites that only work on Internet Explorer.
   

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7. Next, select how and when websites will loaded in Internet Explorer Mode. Click the drop down menu next to Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode.
8. Select Allow and Internet Explorer mode is now On.
   

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What versions of IE are still supported?

Well, none of them. Microsoft no longer officially supports Internet Explorer anymore and there are no plans to change that. And you also can’t have two versions of Internet Explorer on your computer either, at least not in an official sense.

The download link shown earlier is, so far, the only known safe version of Internet Explorer that you can download in 2022. It’s entirely possible that you can have another, but as mentioned earlier, we don’t recommend it because of the risk of malware.

At best, you can have Internet Explorer and Edge on Windows 10. If you’re curious to know which version of IE you have, follow these instructions.

1. Click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner.
2. Click About Internet Explorer in the menu.
   

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3. The Internet Explorer version will appear in a new popup window.
   

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Feel free to leave a comment below if you have any questions on other apps or if you have some that you recommend. Also, feel free to leave comments about guides you’d like to see or information on other web browsers.

Cesar has been writing for and about technology going on for 6 years when he first started writing tech articles for his university paper. Since then, his passion for technology blossomed into a prosperous writing career. He first started writing about tech in the entertainment world and would later move on to write about smart life tech and social media. He was recently a Technical Writer for tech company Extron where he wrote user guides for audio and video equipment.

He has since moved on to being a freelance writer looking to have a career in copywriting and hopes to share his love and knowledge of technology with the world. Recently, Cesar has written for the cryptocurrency news site, BTCPro and helping people understand tech.