“Their browsing data will be automatically brought over to Microsoft Edge from IE11 so they can seamlessly continue browsing.”

It explained that, until the icons disappear in June, users clicking on Internet Explorer will be redirected to Microsoft Edge. If you try to open a site that requires Internet Explorer in Microsoft Edge, you'll be prompted to switch to IE Mode, which should let you use that site as normal.“The change to use Microsoft Edge update to disable IE is intended to provide a better user experience and help organisations transition their last remaining IE11 users to Microsoft Edge,” the firm has said. It's a feature designed to allow business users to keep using resources that were designed for Internet Explorer, since many times, these aren't properly supported on modern browsers. One of the big features of the current version of Microsoft Edge is IE Mode, which basically allows you to open websites as if they were running in Internet Explorer. That means you won't see the IE logo on the taskbar or in the Start menu anymore. Even for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, the browser will no longer be available.Īdditionally, Microsoft will remove any visual references to Internet Explorer from Windows 10 with the Patch Tuesday update in June. Since then, some devices have gradually been redirected to Edge instead, but it will be only in February that it will be completely unavailable. In 2021, the company said it would kill off Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, but in reality, it only began phasing it out on that day. Back in 2020, Microsoft outlined its plans for phasing out the browser, as well as the legacy version of Microsoft Edge (the one that existed prior to the current Chromium-based iteration).

The death of Internet Explorer has been in the cards for a long time now.

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