Microsoft finally decided to stop supporting IE browser on June 15, 2022, and use Edge browser instead.
That’s right, the 26-year-old “Antiquity Browser”, which was born in 1995, is about to officially leave us.
When the bad reviewer saw that in the announcement on Microsoft’s official website, the IE icon slowly became the Edge icon, and there was a moment of mixed feelings.This browser carries a lot of memories from the 80s and 90s In the end, it will be abandoned by the times. I believe that it is not the fact that the poor friend’s understanding of IE comes from the spit on the Internet. In addition to being teased by netizens over the years, there is really no sense of existence for the IE browser. Netizens at home and abroad, after hearing that Microsoft is about to stop supporting IE browser, shared the feeling that this “legendary rubbish” is also time to say goodbye to us. The boring interface, the single label, the expiration of the certificate, and the crash from time to time, so many shortcomings are actually concentrated in one browser. IE’s departure was both expected and reasonable. This browser, which seems to be “useless” now, is really such a rubbish described by netizens? In fact, I think that IE browser was a well-deserved “king”. And it was the victor of the first Internet war. It defeated the prevailing Netscape browser at the time. In 1993, a browser named Netscape Navigator, in an era when there were only more than 20 million computers in the world, it had a download volume of several million, occupying 90% of the browser market. The success of Netscape made Microsoft panic. After all, the browser is the entrance to the entire Internet. Controlling the browser is equivalent to controlling the entire Internet. In August 1995, Microsoft bought the source code of the entire Netscape for US$2 million, changed the skin, and launched the IE1.0 version of the browser. It felt like a big fight with Netscape. Netscape and IE in just one year after you sing, I appeared on the stage, started crazy updates, and Microsoft decided to put a big move: Decided to bundle IE browser and Windows system for sale. Facts have proved that Microsoft’s move is still very effective. Microsoft’s market share has been increasing. By the time of IE4 in 1997, the market share of IE browser users had reached 80%. By 2003, the market share of IE browser increased to a staggering 95%. It is believed that many post-90s post friends were wearing blue shoe covers in a computer classroom for the first time in their lives, and the browser they opened was IE. And this bundled installation strategy, In fact, it has always had a profound impact on China now. I believe that many friends have encountered a prerequisite when logging in to the intranet systems of banks and schools: only the IE browser is supported. This is actually because most of the computers used by these institutions are installed with Windows XP or Windows 7 systems, and their own browser is IE. And the intranet system of these units, The acceptance criterion is to use the browser that comes with the system , Causing everyone to log in to these sites, they can only open them in the IE browser. . . And from the technical point of view of the time, IE browser also made a lot of remarkable innovations. For example, the CSS template is the earliest web design standard. The IE template unifies the mixed pages of the 90s. Let the webpage have its own standards This achievement is about the same as Qin Shihuang’s unified weights and measures on the same track. And in IE 4.0 version, Microsoft took the lead in adopting the Trident rendering engine, so that the special effect content displayed on the web page can be intercepted and processed by the program. To put it bluntly, the webpage can change in real time , In technology, it was really a scorpion shit in 1997, it’s the only one. So IE browser can monopolize the entire browser market, It’s definitely not accidental. And it is this monopoly position that makes Microsoft feel that there is no rival in the browser market. Therefore, for a long period of time, there were not enough resources invested in optimizing the IE browser, but network technology is developing rapidly, and it is the unchanging truth of any era that backwardness must be eliminated. The first appeared is the problem of network security. Due to the inaction of IE, many security vulnerabilities have been focused on this browser, and then problems such as slow startup and easy freezing have appeared one after another. The most deadly thing is that IE’s Trident typesetting engine has become a broken car that cannot be driven, and IE does not yet support new web development models, so I want my web pages to be more beautiful. Programmers need to write more compatible code specifically for IE. This also makes IE a nightmare for many programmers. At this time in 2009, browsers with better compatibility and security, such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, appeared on the market. And it is the familiar Chrome browser that completely changed the status of IE. It can be said that its appearance is completely on the opposite side of IE. Safe, fast, a web page crash will not endanger the whole body, and it also supports a variety of new web features and standards. The interface of Chrome at that time looks outdated at all. The biggest killer that Google can replace IE is: They open sourced the entire Chrome browser! In Google’s Chromium project, everyone can get all the source code needed to make a browser for free, which is equivalent to Google has already sent a creamy cake to the peers, and peers can choose to add a layer of cream and The fruit is then sold out, or the cream is simply changed to a different shape and delivered to the customer. Although 360, QQ, and UC are domestic browsers, the industry generally does not call them “self-developed browsers” because they (now) are all based on the Chromium project. After learning, Microsoft did not launch IE 8 until 2009, and it has made great progress in compatibility and security, but this is already the last struggle of IE. At this time, IE has become a cross-street mouse that everyone shouts and beats on the Internet. In the 2011 “50 Worst Tech Products in the History of Science and Technology”, the IE browser actually appeared at the 11th place! By 2015, IE’s market share had fallen below 20%, and Microsoft finally decided to abandon this veteran who had been following him for many years since Windows 95. They shattered the IE browser and rebuilt it into a gadget called the Edge browser, with the EdgeHTML engine developed by Microsoft built-in, but at that time Edge did not completely get rid of the shadow of IE. In short: The same is difficult to use. And all kinds of browsers developed with Chromium source code on the market have blossomed, and Microsoft’s Edge browser can only be reduced to a PDF opener. Until December 2018, “Hard” 23 years of Microsoft can not stand the trend of the times , Voted for the enemy camp, decided to give up his EdgeHTML engine and replace it with the fragrant Chromium core. In August 2020, Microsoft officially launched this stable version of Edge browser equipped with Chromium core. In order to show its loyalty to surrender, it also abandoned the classic old image, changed it again, and designed a new logo. A few days ago, Microsoft finally decided to personally send the IE browser for the last time, announcing that it would completely stop supporting IE browser on June 15 this year. Although the bad reviewer usually hacks up the IE browser, he doesn’t say anything, but after knowing that it’s officially leaving us, I still a little bit lamented. After all, this browser carries too much memory for me. But the rules of the Internet have always been like this, and imperfect technologies will always be innovated and eliminated. Even Microsoft is no exception. And what is left in the end is some better technology, and the netizens sighed “Yes, Ye Qingjie”, and there is a memory that can remain in the memory of a generation. Perhaps leaving quietly is its best destination. references [1]Qubit: Microsoft personally covers the IE coffin board: it will be disabled in June next year, slow and unsafe, and it was fined 17 billion yuan for monopoly [2]Bad review: This time, Microsoft and Google have merged. [3]Bad review: how to choose? After all, there are only four browsers that can access the Internet. . . Image source;: Weibo, Baidu picture, bad review “The Wavemaker”
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