So Long, Internet Explorer. The Browser Retires Today

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) โ€” Microsoft has officially sent Internet Explorer into retirement.

As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate โ€” and a few still claim to adore.

Its launch in 1995 signaled the beginning of the end of the web’s first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator.

IEโ€™s market share peaked in the early 2000s at over 90%.

But it began to fade as users found faster, less crash-prone alternatives.

Today, Google’s Chrome browser dominates with about 65% of the worldwide browser market share. I

Eโ€™s heir, Microsoft Edge, lags with about about 4%.