Official reason
IE 11 retired; Microsoft Edge is the replacement.
Microsoft · Developer Tools
Internet Explorer
RIP
1995–2022 · 27 years in market
The browser that won the first war and lost the next three. Retired in favor of Chromium Edge.
Launched
Aug 16, 1995
Discontinued
Jun 15, 2022
Cause of death
Replaced by successor
What actually happened
Trident could not keep up. Chromium became the web’s runtime; IE became a compatibility mode.
Lesson
Owning the default does not own the engine. If the web moves and you do not, you become the intranet.
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Chromium with a Microsoft skin and enterprise hooks.
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