Users of the internet, you’ve no doubt been burned or even just offended by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. So you’ll be pleased to hear that with the release of Microsoft 10 this summer, Internet Explorer will be absent. But, like the crippling memory of that embarrassing thing you did that one time, it won’t really go away.
According to CNN Money on March 18, though Microsoft’s default browser will be replaced by the code-named “Project Spartan” internet browser, IE can’t be ushered off to rest quietly in its tech grave. Now 20 years old, the browser has to stick around due to some businesses that haven’t made it to this century yet.
The new system is being built from the ground up and will be a completely different software platform. But that’s bad news for companies that haven’t updated their website in quite some time and depend on the ancient technology of IE to function properly. FOX News also noted that in South Korea , there’s even a law that requires banks and retailers to use digital certificates, which are only available in Internet Explorer.
Now the new browser’s main hurdle is going to be trying to gain back mobile users. A Standard and Poor Capital analyst noted that at one point, IE had more than 80 percent of the browser market, but once mobile browsing came into play, they’ve been on the downward slope. As recently as October of 2014, they were only holding 20 percent, which is still surprisingly high for their low reputation.
Microsoft is now eyeing Apple’s Safari, Google’s Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox as its main competition. Hopefully, with a completely new browser, internet with Microsoft will be a slightly more comparable experience than it was with IE.
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