Microsoft retires Internet Explorer browser

Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer (IE) on August 16, 1995. Initially, it started off as a handy add-on browser application with Windows 95 in 1994 and was later offered pre-loaded with every new Windows OS iteration on PCs.

In the early years, it received a good reception, as IE was well optimised to work seamlessly on Windows-run PCs and also even killed its nearest rival Netscape Navigator browser.

In 2003, IE was at its peak, however, with the advent of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, DuckDuck Go, and Brave, Microsoft had a tough time selling Internet Explorer to urge Windows PC users to make the latter a default browser. At the end of the next decade between 2013-14, it totally fell out of favour among PC users.