Although Internet Explorer was officially retired in 2022, it lives on in the Edge browser for those with older websites.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Internet Explorer is dead. Microsoft is retiring IE today after nearly 27 years.

Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10's primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and ...

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