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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“It held the door open to the web for millions, then politely showed itself out.”
Internet Explorer 11 was the eleventh and final version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, debuting with Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on October 17, 2013, and arriving for Windows 7 shortly after. As the original default browser of Windows 8.1 and a fixture of later Windows releases, it was, for a great many people, simply how you got online.
Its ending came slowly and with dignity: Microsoft's lifecycle policy of January 12, 2016 tied IE11's support to whichever version of Windows it lived on, treating it as an OS component rather than a product of its own. Updates flowed only as long as the underlying Windows did, and it hung around quietly through Windows 10 and Server 2019 before the lights dimmed. It leaves behind the memory of an era when one browse
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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“Thinner, lighter, and gone before we got tired of looking at it”
“It lived up to its name, then quietly rode off into the prepaid sunset.”