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internet explorer was a fixture on nearly all Windows pcs from the

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mid-1990s to the mid-2000s in fact it

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was estimated that internet explorer's usage share was as high as around 95

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in 2003 but once viable alternatives like

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firefox and chrome hit the market internet explorer lost its stranglehold

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on our digital lives faster than mc hammer lost his fortune

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so what led to its demise and why was it such a widely reviled browser well

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funnily enough a lot of internet explorer's problems had their roots in

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microsoft's desire not to frustrate its users but rather to

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innovate you see microsoft tried to set

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its early versions of ie apart from its competitors by focusing on adding new

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features rather than simply trying to make the browser as fast as possible

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and they had a measure of success by this metric in fact ie was the first

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browser to support a number of technologies that are ubiquitous on

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today's web such as css which is a

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modern standard for web page design that allows pages to look pretty and be more

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functional compared to the clunky messes of the early 90s ie also started using

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its trident rendering engine with version 4.0 which is the piece of code

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that controls how a web page's underlying code will be turned into what

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you see on your screen and trident was groundbreaking because it allowed

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certain elements on a web page to change on the fly back in 1997 this was like a

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huge deal later ie introduced the underlying support for ajax not to be

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confused with the greek hero the household cleaner or the dutch soccer

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club which supports using server data to display up-to-date information on a web

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page without requiring a refresh a concept that is critical for modern

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sites like gmail and google maps that are highly interactive these features

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and others made it so that developers flocked to internet explorer because it

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supported technologies that could make their websites more interactive and

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visually appealing by contrast ie's competitors at the time such as netscape

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often couldn't handle these features without slowing down or even crashing

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so that was how it got popular also some

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arguably pretty anti-competitive stuff but changing gears here the problems that

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eventually made the browser infamous started to rear their ugly heads in the

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early 2000s with such a stranglehold on the market microsoft neglected to put in

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enough resources to continue to improve ie and as the internet as well as online

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security threats continued to evolve the browser gained a reputation for being

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both slow and insecure making matters worse microsoft made it

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difficult to switch to an alternative web browser by deeply integrating ie

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into Windows and making it very hard to uninstall throwing away needlessly much

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of its previously earned goodwill with its users by the mid 2000s rival

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browsers such as firefox took advantage of this time of weakness by embracing

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open web standards for speed reliability and security rather than relying on a

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host of proprietary technologies like internet explorer did these open

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standards had finally reached the point where developers no longer had to rely

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on microsoft's proprietary solutions to support interactivity so

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that was a pretty big shift so with that ie's market share dropped

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precipitously and yet microsoft still

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didn't seem to be seriously trying to address the problem and all the while

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more and more pages appeared broken or improperly rendered in ie it wouldn't be

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until 2009 that microsoft would get around to releasing internet explorer 8

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which featured significant improvements in standards compliance and security

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but by that point ie had already lost between a quarter and a third of its

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2003 market share so the damage had

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already been done and google chrome's appearance in 2009 all but assured ie's

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demise although it hung on for a few more years

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microsoft finally replaced internet explorer with the edge browser whose

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rendering engine was purged of all of ie's old code in 2015 after internet

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explorer's usage share dropped below 20 so today ie only still exists so that

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folks can use legacy websites written with its proprietary features in mind

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you may have encountered this if you've had to log into a workplace network for

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example and also as a lesson that you

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can't just sit on your hands while the world passes you by

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