{"id":12906,"date":"2022-06-16T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:58:38","slug":"internet-explorer-handover-family-head-role-to-microsoft-edge-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/internet-explorer-handover-family-head-role-to-microsoft-edge-after-27-years","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer Handover \u2018Family-Head\u2019 Role to Microsoft Edge After 27 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leading Microsoft\u2019s Browser family affairs as head of the family for 27 long years Internet Explorer (IE) finally retires by handing over the keys to its heir Microsoft Edge!<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this journey of 27 years, IE had taken up various attire \u00a0(read it as versions) starting from IE-Version-1 to IE-Version-11. For some period, it had dominated the internet browser market as a monarch, it also had to fight a tough battle for market share with Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and many other players.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">IE has received both brickbats and compliments from the tech world in its long journey of 27 years. Interestingly, during this 27-year-long journey, many techies who had started their IT careers with IE have retired or are on the verge of retirement!\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The most popular meme about IE is- tech-community dubbing it as a <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<strong><em>Browser best suited for installing other Browsers!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We all have fond memories of various technology gadgets and tools that we have used in our day-to-day lives starting from Landline Telephones, Gramophones, Tape Recorders, BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems, and Palm Pilots, Pagers, etc.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To conclude Internet Explorer has a permanent place in all our lives as it was synonymous for many of us as <strong>&#8220;a window to the internet&#8221;<\/strong> from our desktops.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/about-us\/\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CloudThat<\/span><\/a> team gives a big adieu to Microsoft IE and wishes all the success for Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Chronology of Internet Explorer Evolution<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Year of Release<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>IE Version<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>August 16, 1995<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Internet Explorer 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>November 22, 1995<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Internet Explorer 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>August 13, 1996<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Internet Explorer 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>September 1997<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Internet Explorer 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 18, 1999<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Internet Explorer 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>August 24, 2001<\/td>\n<td>Microsoft Internet Explorer 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>October 18, 2006<\/td>\n<td>Windows Internet Explorer 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 19, 2009<\/td>\n<td>Windows Internet Explorer 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>March 14, 2011<\/td>\n<td>Windows Internet Explorer 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>October 26, 2012<\/td>\n<td>Windows Internet Explorer 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>October 17, 2013<\/td>\n<td>Internet Explorer 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read detailed story of IE retirement\u00a0<\/span>here:<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmanorama.com\/news\/business\/2022\/06\/15\/internet-explorer-retires-27-years.amp.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.onmanorama.com\/news\/business\/2022\/06\/15\/internet-explorer-retires-27-years.amp.html<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12917,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","blog_category":[3609],"user_email":"ravichandra@cloudthat.com","published_by":"324","primary-authors":"","secondary-authors":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/12906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/12906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46031,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/12906\/revisions\/46031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}