



Interoperable: With hardware-accelerated HTML5, developers can use the same markup across browsers to deliver a new class of Web experiences that feel more like apps than sites. Trusted: IE9 offers industry-leading protections (like SmartScreen) for the real-world threats (such as malicious sites and phishing scams) that consumers face every day on a sometimes-hostile Web. IE9 shows how your Web experience and browser are only as good as the operating system they run on:įast: With IE9, the Web delivers a new level of performance by unlocking the power of the PC hardware through Windows.Ĭlean: With IE9, consumers can keep sites at the center of their browsing experience, pinning them to the taskbar and interacting with them the same way they do applications. But is archived here, as much software (stupidly) requires it.With this set of browser releases, the best experience of the Web is on Windows. Internet Explorer is freely redistributable. Something that would have been unthinkable back then. In 1998, Microsoft was hit with an antitrust suit, much of which involved their browser bundling.īy around 2004, Microsoft had destroyed most of their competition, dominated the browser market, and let IE stagnate until released Firefox.Īfter Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft supplanted IE with "Microsoft Edge" which eventually switched to the Google Chrome rendering engine. Microsoft fiercely pushed third party products to bundle Internet Explorer, and web sites to work only in Internet Explorer. Microsoft aggressively and abusively positioned Internet Explorer as part of their "browser war" to eliminate all competition. Home Internet access was still somewhat new and competed against proprietary services like CompuServe, AOL, and Microsoft's own MSN. At various points, Internet Explorer was also available for MacOS, Solaris, and HP-UX.Īt its 1995 release, Internet Explorer competed with the Mosaic web browser and Netscape Navigator.

It was initially based on Spyglass Mosaic. Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser application created by Microsoft primarily for Microsoft Windows.
