Microsoft announces retirement of Internet Explorer


Microsoft is putting its old browser Internet Explorer to rest, with support to be ended by mid next year. — Reuters

Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years and which is now largely abandoned as people instead use competitors like Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari.

"We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge," the company said in a blog post Wednesday, referring to its other browser.

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