Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
Internet Explorer 1 | August 16, 1995
The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Reardon.
The first version, dubbed Microsoft Internet Explorer, was installed as part of the Internet Jumpstart Kit in the Microsoft Plus! pack for Windows 95.
Internet Explorer 1.5 was released several months later for Windows NT and added support for basic table rendering.
Internet Explorer 2 | November 22, 1995
Internet Explorer 2 is the second major version of Internet Explorer, released on November 22, 1995, for Windows 95 and Windows NT, and on April 23, 1996, for Apple Macintosh and Windows 3.1.
Version 2 launched with 12 languages, including English, but this would expand to 24 for Windows 95, 20 for Windows 3.1, and 9 for the Macintosh by April 1996.
Internet Explorer 3 is the third major version of Internet Explorer, released on August 13, 1996 for Microsoft Windows and on January 8, 1997 for Apple Mac OS.
Internet Explorer 5 is the fifth major version of Internet Explorer, released on March 18, 1999 for Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 SP3, Windows 98, Mac OS X (up to v5.2.3), Classic Mac OS (up to v5.1.7), Solaris and HP-UX (up to 5.01 SP1).
Significant changes:
5.0 Beta 1
June 2, 1998
Support of more CSS2 features
N/A
5.0 Beta 2
November 15, 1998
Support of bi-directional text, ruby character, XML/XSL and more CSS properties
Internet Explorer 6 is the sixth major version of Internet Explorer, released on August 24, 2001 for Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME and as the default web browser for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Significant changes:
6.0 Beta 1
March 22, 2001
More CSS changes and bug fixes to be more W3C-compliant.
N/A
6.0
August 24, 2001
Final release. Removed the smart tag feature, which was introduced in the beta. First version to officially support Windows XP.
Internet Explorer 7 is the seventh major version of Internet Explorer, released on October 18, 2006 for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and as the default web browser for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009.
Significant changes:
Version
Release date
Significant changes
Shipped with
7.0 Beta 1
July 27, 2005
Support of PNG alpha channel. CSS bug fixes. Tabbed browsing.
Internet Explorer 8 is the eight major version of Internet Explorer, released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and as the default web browser for Windows 7 (later default was Internet Explorer 11) and Windows Server 2008 R2.
New features:
Accelerators
Autocomplete changes
Automatic tab-crash recovery
Developer tools
Favorites Bar
Inline search within pages
InPrivate
Performance and stability
SmartScreen Filter
Suggested sites
Web Slices and authenticated feeds
Zooming and image scaling
ActiveX behavior control
Internet Explorer 9 | March 14, 2011
Internet Explorer 9 is the ninth major version of Internet Explorer, released on March 14, 2011 for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 with the Platform Update.
JavaScript engine integrated into the core browser components, a shared DOM between the browser and the script engine based on ECMAScript5, and a highly interactive and integrated SVG.[30]
Performance, interoperability enhancements, and support for the W3C Geolocation API.
Release Candidate
9.0.8080.16413
Improved performance, InPrivate Filtering renamed to Tracking Protection, a refined UI, support for more web standards, the option to add a new tab row, and other improvements.
Internet Explorer 10 is the tenth major version of Internet Explorer, released on October 26, 2012 for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and as the default web browser for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Significant changes:
Name
New features
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview
Support for CSS3 multi-column layout, CSS3 grid layout, CSS3 flexible box layout, CSS3 gradients, ES5 strict mode, and a new user agent string (see §User agent string).
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2
Support for Positioned Floats, CSS stylesheet limit lifted, CSSOM Floating Point Value support, Improved hit testing APIs, Media Query Listeners, HTML5: Support for async attribute on script elements, HTML5 Drag and Drop, HTML5 File API, HTML5 Sandbox, HTML5 Web Workers, and some Web Performance APIs.
Internet Explorer 10 Developer Preview
Support for Windows 8, CSS 3D Transforms, CSS Text shadow, SVG Filter Effects, Spellchecking, Autocorrection, local storage with IndexedDB and the HTML5 Application Cache, Web Sockets, HTML5 History, and InPrivate tabs.
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, File API Writer, JavaScript Typed Arrays (WebGL), CSS user select property, HTML5 Video Text Captioning, and Updated Quirks Mode.
Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for XMLHttpRequest, CSS -ms-user-select property, CSS3 font-feature-settings property to access advanced OpenType features, Document setting to enable floating point values in CSS-OM, HTML5 BlobBuilder API and new APIs to save or open files, HTML5 track element for HTML5 video captions, Interoperable HTML5 Quirks mode, JavaScript Typed Arrays, Meta tag to alert user that site requires ActiveX add-ons available only in desktop IE10, removal of legacy graphics features from IE10 standards mode, changes to support latest HTML5 WebSocket API, and Web Worker thread pooling.[38]
Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview
Removal of app switch button, new UI for search results, integration of touch-friendly Adobe Flash Player, Flip Ahead, "Do not track"-flag set by default,[39][40] removal of legacy DX filters from all of the document modes (can be re-enabled using the Internet Options dialog), and support for (CSS transitions, transforms, animations, gradients, and CSS Fonts’ font-feature-settings property, as well as platform APIs such as the Indexed Database API (IndexedDB) and requestAnimationFrame()) in their unprefixed forms, but still supports their prefixed forms.[41]
Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019
Released in Windows 10. Microsoft Edge is the default browser from Microsoft in this version of Windows. Internet Explorer is set up to run websites, based on legacy HTML technologies, which are not, or improperly, supported in Microsoft Edge.
End of life: replaced by Microsoft Edge | June 15, 2022
Microsoft Edge, officially unveiled on January 21, 2015, has replaced Internet Explorer as the default browser on Windows 10. Internet Explorer is still installed in Windows 10 and 11 to maintain compatibility with older websites and intranet sites that require ActiveX and other Microsoft legacy web technologies. Internet Explorer was removed from the Start menu in Windows 11 but can still be launched via other means such as the Help button in Control Panel's Internet Options and PowerShell.
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