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That’s changing today, according to a tweet from Malte Ubl, a software engineer at Google, sharing that the company’s flagship Google Search is no longer officially supporting Internet Explorer 11.Īs a web developer this is one of the happiest announcements in a while: Google Search ended support for IE11 in its main product 🎉 (you can still search but will get a fallback experience). Keeping web apps compatible with Internet Explorer 11, as you might expect, requires additional work on the developer’s part, with Google having opted up to this point to maintain support for the legacy browser.

And that’s not even considering the many enterprise users who are forced to use Internet Explorer for certain legacy applications. While that may seem low, consider the sheer number of desktop devices that access the internet 1% of that total is still a significant amount.
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This left Internet Explorer 11 as the default browser on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, unless you decided to install a third-party browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.īecause of this, Internet Explorer has still managed to retain a relatively high usage rate, with StatCounter reporting that the browser has over 1% of desktop browser market share as of September 2021, compared to Google Chrome’s 67%. Until Microsoft made the bold move to rebuild the Edge browser on Google’s Chromium engine, Edge was not available to those with devices on older versions of Windows.
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Though we didn’t know it at the time, Internet Explorer 11 would be the final release of Microsoft’s oft-maligned web browser, ultimately being replaced with Microsoft Edge with the launch of Windows 10 in 2015.
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Internet Explorer 11 first released in 2013 as part of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 release, before being ported back to the still popular Windows 7. Microsoft is expected to end the Internet Explorer bundled in Windows soon after.As of today, Google Search is no longer officially supporting Internet Explorer 11, marking the beginning of the end for Microsoft’s now-ancient browser. The removal of support for the desktop application of IE 11 will follow next year. This was first indicated by the company in an announcement last year, as it pulled off Microsoft Teams support for IE 11 since then.

The company has even shared a timeline for this phase-out of the app.Īs per the timeline, Microsoft will pull off Microsoft 365 and other apps and support for Internet Explorer 11 on August 17 this year. In a recent blog, Microsoft has announced that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022. As Edge marked its debut in 2015, Internet Explorer was reduced to a “compatibility solution” for Microsoft users. Microsoft had long seen this coming and hence, had decided to bring in Microsoft Edge as its primary web browser. Much of this life was marred by a gradual decline in its user base over the years, thanks to its slow evolution that was outpaced by that of its competitors like Google Chrome. The web browser enjoyed a run of more than 25 years since then. Microsoft first introduced the Internet Explorer on Windows in 1995.
