Microsoft stopped supporting IE browser on June 15, and the final version stayed at IE 11, which aroused the "memory killing" of many netizens. Since 1995, IE has been built into every new version of Windows system, gradually occupying a monopoly advantage in the browser market.

Microsoft stopped supporting IE browser on June 15, and the final version stayed at IE 11, which aroused the "memory killing" of many netizens. Since 1995, IE has been built into each new version of Windows system, gradually occupying a monopoly advantage in the browser market. In 2003, IE occupied 95% of the market share, becoming the most widely used web browser with the highest market share in the world. IE was also the browser used by many people born in the 1980s when they first came into contact with the Internet. At that time, many third-party browsers also used IE as their core.

In order to commemorate the IE browser, netizens used various creativity. A Korean engineer went so far as to build a tombstone for IE, and the inscription made netizens laugh.

The Korean software engineer named Jung Ki-young spent more than 2,000 yuan and a month to make a special IE tombstone. The inscription reads:

so Internet Explorer

1995.8.17 ~ 2022.6.15

He was a good tool to download other browsers.

"It is a good tool for downloading other browsers", which made many netizens laugh.

Jung Ki-young chose to display it in a cafe in South Korea. The photos received enthusiastic responses on Reddit in the United States and the Korean Clien forum, with tens of thousands of likes. He said that he has mixed emotions about IE, which can be said to be love and hate. In his software working life, IE plays an important role.

Although Microsoft has repeatedly announced that it will stop supporting IE, many companies in Japan and South Korea are still heavy users of IE, and many websites still require IE to display correctly. According to the research organization EarthWeb, it is estimated that the IE browser still has a market share of 0.64%, and is still used by about 28 million people around the world.

Internet Explorer, referred to as IE, is a graphical user interface web browser developed by Microsoft. Built into every new version of the Windows operating system since 1995, it is also an integral part of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

IE was once the most widely used web browser, reaching peak usage of 95% in 2002 and 2003. Microsoft won the first browser war with a bundle against Netscape, the dominant browser of the 1990s. With the launch of Mozilla Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), IE's market share gradually declined. According to statistics in September 2015, the cumulative market share of each version of IE was 15.71%, ranking third in the world. Microsoft was investing more than $100 million a year in IE in the late 1990s, and by 1999 the development team had more than 1,000 people.

In addition, it is also available in other operating systems: including Internet Explorer Mobile, formerly known as Pocket Internet Explorer, used on Windows Phone and Windows Mobile; there are also Mac OS Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for UNIX used on non-Microsoft platforms.

On March 17, 2015, Microsoft announced that IE would no longer be the default browser for Windows 10 systems and would gradually abandon this brand. On April 29, at the Microsoft Build 2015 conference, Microsoft released a new browser Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge is the default browser of Windows 10, while IE only appears in the "Accessories", which means that IE has faded out of mainstream applications. On January 6, 2016, Microsoft announced that it would stop releasing security updates for versions prior to IE 11. On August 17, 2020, Microsoft announced that it would gradually stop supporting IE before the end of November. On May 20, 2021, Microsoft announced that it would completely end support for IE on June 15, 2022. In the same year, Microsoft released the Windows 11 operating system, and IE was completely removed from the Windows operating system.

On June 15, 2022, Microsoft announced that it would no longer update IE, which means that Microsoft has completely abandoned this browser. For website compatibility, the alternative is to use the IE mode of Microsoft Edge. Microsoft promises that this feature will at least Extend until 2029 to allow sites to complete the transition and provide one year's notice before discontinuation. IE mode uses the Trident MSHTML engine, which is IE's rendering code.