The move to focusing exclusively on Edge has been a long time coming and, in huge part, it’s a security move, Microsoft told Yahoo Finance. Microsoft's become highly invested in Edge, which the company launched in 2015. Internet Explorer, to quote Billy Crystal's famous line from "The Princess Bride," is "only mostly dead." See, the browser isn't dying completely - it'll live on Edge, where users can open sites that require Internet Explorer 11 in what's called IE Mode. One of the most difficult things when you’re successful is that you need to eventually move users off of the old technology… We’ve learned a lot about how to better architect browsers since.” Mostly dead is slightly alive Microsoft's newer browser, Microsoft Edge, has also benefited from this research - the source code that’s in Chrome is also in Edge, according to Cappos.
Chrome was the result of a full-court press of researchers looking into how to improve web browsers in the aughts. The launch of Google Chrome in 2008 marked the official beginning of the end for Internet Explorer as the shiny new cross-platform browser grew to dominate the market. “I think early in their corporate culture they equated open-source with free, and with piracy, which was such a big problem in Windows.” “They were slow to open-source because piracy was such a big deal and such a big problem for them,” he told Yahoo Finance. Since Microsoft was around before it had been proven that open-source was a viable business model, the company didn't adapt quickly. Justin Cappos, computer science and engineering professor at New York University, agrees.
"It was this new paradigm that I don't think Microsoft gravitated towards quickly enough." "You have open source coming out and saying, 'Hey, if you want to see how this is developed, great, we'll show you," he said. " was one of the first browsers that came to widespread prominence because it was on every single Windows machine," Ari Lightman, digital media and marketing professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told Yahoo Finance.īut as Firefox launched in 2002 and the success of other open-source browsers mounted, Microsoft began to fall behind. (Photo by Robert Sorbo/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images) Bill Gates defends Microsoft's decision to sell Windows98 with Internet Explorer.
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