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Microsoft's Internet Explorer bows out, but browser wars aren't over yet

Chrome has steadily gained market share, but its dominance is unlikely to last forever

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MS changed the paradigm when it asked Mosaic to design IE and then offered IE as a free installation bundled with every Windows operating system

Devangshu Datta New Delhi
There was just a small ripple across the technosphere when Microsoft (MS) announced it would retire its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, shutting down all support by August 2021. MS also stated that the IE successor, the MS Edge browser, would move completely onto Google’s open-source Chromium platform.

Neither IE nor Edge are popular anymore. Barely 1.3 per cent of the world’s surfers (desktop plus mobile) used IE in July 2020, and cynics would suspect that many of those IE windows were opened by accident. MS Edge only has about 2.2 per cent market share.

Google’s Chrome, (also based on Chromium and

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