Technology giant Microsoft recently announced that it will discontinue its long-standing web browser, Internet Explorer, and replace it with a new product, Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer support will only last until June 15, 2022, so the rest of the users will only find an alternative for over a year. Of course, most web users already have one.
The final downfall of Intbreaking puernet Explorer was taken for granted by those watching web trends, but for those who aren’t up to date, the news can be an unwelcome surprise. ..
But most of the time, the news isn’t a fuss, it’s a whisper, and it’s the final footnote to an iconic story over 25 years.
As a current expert in the IT industry, I will analyze some of the possible reasons for this decision and what you can learn from it.
Finding the Answer Most people are accustomed to the idea of ”Google” something, but not “Microsoft” anything. How did Google become a synonym for web search? Did Microsoft not become a synonym for its long and pioneering history? The answer is market share .. Google processes 92.24% of web searches and handles more than 3.5 billion requests per day. Bing, Microsoft’s own search engine, has only 2.29%.
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It’s clear why users prefer Chrome, Google’s own web browser, to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which uses Bing as its default search engine. Users who prefer Google search (almost all users) can make Google the default search engine for Internet Explorer. However, it would be easier to install Chrome and use Google from there.
Success creates complacency. Self-satisfaction causes failure Microsoft has not always been a bit player. When the Web was in the early days, it was a market-leading pioneer. Before app stores, 5G, and even personal computers became widespread, there were large mainframe computers with “unfriendly” Unix-based operating systems developed in the 1970s.
These systems had minimal functionality with little consideration for graphics or usability. Netscape, Unix’s original web browser, was just as plain.
That’s where Microsoft came in and focused on making “personal computers” more personal. By the time Internet Explorer was launched in 1995, Microsoft was firmly at the forefront of the digital world.
But, as Benjamin E. Maze, an American Baptist minister and leader of the civil rights movement, warned, “the tragedy of life is not in failure, but rather in self-satisfaction.” That is well known. Microsoft, which has established a reputation, has stopped pushing the development of Internet Explorer and has begun to move elsewhere, continuously improving Windows instead of Web browsers. Since then, Internet Explorer has always been lagging behind in the introduction of innovations such as tabbed browsing and search bars. It became even more meaningless and obsolete.
Compatibility issues One of my biggest complaints about spending much of my life as a web developer is the incompatibility of some web browsers. Spending hours of refining a web page can be exhausting and discouraging, but it doesn’t work well in some browsers.
This concern also spread to Microsoft’s internal developers. In a 2019 blog post titled “The Dangers of Using Internet Explorer as the Default Browser,” Microsoft’s Chris Jackson warned: They are testing with the latest browsers.
The message was clear: Web developers can’t take advantage of Internet Explorer, so sites that work well in other browsers may not work here — and the problem is only getting worse.
Microsoft lost interest in keeping Internet Explorer on track, so it turned its attention to its new browser, Microsoft Edge. However, the horse may already be bolted on. The market is flooded with Chrome from Google, Safari from Apple, Firefox from Mozilla, and many open source browsers.
This is another important statistic of the decline of Internet Explorer. By 2020, more than two-thirds of all website visits came from mobile devices.
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Currently, we need a browser that can sync across multiple platforms. In the world of Apple and Android devices, the term “Windows Phone” sounds prehistoric. Support for the Windows Phone operating system ended in 2017, just seven years after Microsoft first launched the range.
Therefore, Internet Explorer, which has existed since the dawn of the Internet era (or at least since the Internet became truly mainstream), lags behind in many ways.
Despite the success of Surface tablets, Microsoft has failed to maintain a foothold in the smartphone market. Or vice versa. The clunkiness of Internet Explorer is the reason why you don’t use Windows Phone.
But the bottom line is that Internet Explorer simply lacks the versatility needed by web-savvy users. And as of next year, even inexperienced users will not rely on it.
(Vin Buoy, Lecturer at Southern Cross University)
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