According to the latest report, Microsoft’s IE browser (Internet Explorer) will be officially retired. In 27 years, this once-king browser has finally come to an end. Bloomberg wrote that Japan may be the country most affected by this.
It is reported that a survey in March this year found that 49% of Japanese companies are still using Internet Explorer. Among them, the most commonly used are internal management, data exchange, and accounting systems.
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After Microsoft announced its IE browser retirement plan, companies must act quickly to ensure that applications that previously relied on the IE browser can still function normally. But many of Japan’s preparations to switch browsers have stalled, reports say.
IE used to be the world’s dominant browser and the standard-setter in the industry, but the IE6 version fell out of favor due to bloated features and performance concerns. Faster, more powerful browsers like Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox dominate the market, according to Statcounter. In 2003, the IE browser accounted for 95% of the market share; last month, the IE browser’s global market share was only 0.64%.
Microsoft’s IE successor, the Edge browser, is a browser built on the same underlying platform as Chrome, called Chromium, and thus is compatible with Chrome’s extensions and supports most of the same features. Microsoft has integrated IE mode in Edge, and it will continue to support IE mode for some time to come.
