After 25+ years of serving to folks use and expertise the net, Web Explorer (IE) is formally retired and out of help as of right this moment, June 15, 2022. To many tens of millions of you, thanks for utilizing Web Explorer as your gateway to the web.
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As a person, my first expertise with IE was model 3, and my view of what was attainable on the web was reworked by the introduction of Dynamic HTML in IE4 and the introduction of AJAX in IE6. After I acquired the chance to hitch the IE7 workforce, I leapt on it, and have been part of the Microsoft browser journey in some type ever since. Web Explorer’s status right this moment is, deservedly, certainly one of a product from an older period—quirky in habits and missing the safety of a contemporary browser. However its contributions to the evolution of the net have been outstanding, from serving to to make the net actually interactive with DHTML and AJAX to hardware-accelerated graphics to improvements in contact/pen searching. Engaged on the retirement of Web Explorer has been a continuing reminder of its significance; every single day we work with clients who’ve constructed their companies on Web Explorer. To work on a product with such broad impression has been nothing however humbling—our story in some ways is the story of the web and what it has allowed folks and organizations around the globe to do.
However the net has developed and so have browsers. Incremental enhancements to Web Explorer couldn’t match the final enhancements to the net at massive, so we began contemporary. Microsoft Edge is a sooner, safer and trendy browser—the very best browser for Home windows—designed for right this moment’s web. However we haven’t forgotten that some elements of the net nonetheless depend on Web Explorer’s particular behaviors and options, which is why Microsoft Edge comes with Web Explorer mode (IE mode). Whatever the website or commonplace—previous or new—you possibly can entry what you want in Microsoft Edge with new trendy options to make your time on-line even higher.
So, what occurs now for on a regular basis customers?
Instance message informing customers they’re being redirected to Microsoft Edge
Over the following few months, opening Web Explorer will progressively redirect customers to our new trendy browser, Microsoft Edge with IE mode. Customers will nonetheless see the Web Explorer icon on their gadgets (resembling on the taskbar or within the Begin menu) but when they click on to open Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge will open as a substitute with easy accessibility to IE mode. Ultimately, Web Explorer will probably be disabled completely as a part of a future Home windows Replace, at which level the Web Explorer icons on customers’ gadgets will probably be eliminated.
As a part of this redirection course of, customers may have their information like favorites, passwords and settings imported from Web Explorer—this may assist make the transition to Microsoft Edge each acquainted and easy. If a person desires to delete or handle their information at any level after, they’ll at all times achieve this in Microsoft Edge from the Settings menu.
Some web sites solely work with Web Explorer—these web sites may be constructed on older web know-how and never perform correctly whereas utilizing a contemporary browser. Understanding this, we’ve constructed Microsoft Edge with IE mode.
To assist customers get began with IE mode, the redirection course of will add a “Reload in IE mode” button (see under) to their toolbar in Microsoft Edge. That method, in the event that they encounter an internet site that will not work appropriately—or in the event that they go to an internet site that asks them to open the positioning utilizing Web Explorer—they’ll simply click on the button to open the web page in IE mode. Microsoft Edge will even ask them in the event that they’d just like the web page to open in IE mode subsequent time routinely! Microsoft Edge will examine in with the person each 30 days to verify they nonetheless want IE mode for the positioning. As increasingly websites get up to date to trendy requirements, customers might want to use IE mode much less and the fashionable rendering engine extra.
Reload in IE mode button within the Microsoft Edge toolbar
Take a look at the video under on easy methods to use the button or study extra right here.
Companies can automate IE mode for his or her customers
When you’re an IT skilled and your group makes use of older, legacy websites as a part of your regular enterprise processes, you possibly can simply automate IE mode in order that these pages launch in IE mode routinely on your customers.
Right now’s retirement covers all at present supported variations of Home windows 10 House, Professional, Enterprise, Edu and IoT (Web Explorer is already faraway from Home windows 11). Web Explorer won’t be instantly eliminated on all these variations right this moment however will probably be progressively redirected to Microsoft Edge on all these gadgets over the following few months (identical to for on a regular basis customers) to offer our clients time to seek out any websites they probably missed and full their transition. After this redirection part, Web Explorer will probably be completely disabled on gadgets by way of a future Home windows Replace.
For sure variations of Home windows at present in-support and utilized in vital environments, we’ll proceed to help Web Explorer on these variations till they exit of help. These embody all at present in-support Home windows 10 LTSC releases (together with IoT) and all Home windows Server variations, in addition to Home windows 10 China Authorities Version, Home windows 8.1, and Home windows 7 with Prolonged Safety Updates (ESUs). Future variations of those editions won’t embody Web Explorer. Builders who depend on the underlying MSHTML (Trident) platform and COM controls on Home windows may also proceed to be supported on all Home windows platforms.
And naturally, we have now dedicated to supporting IE mode in Microsoft Edge by way of a minimum of 2029.
As a enterprise, you possibly can arrange IE mode to make use of a website listing, the place you possibly can catalog these websites that require Web Explorer and have them load routinely in IE mode. You’ll be able to retailer this website listing domestically, or within the cloud by way of the Microsoft 365 admin heart, and any website on the listing will load on your customers in IE mode. That is the really helpful strategy for those who’re a enterprise that manages your gadgets and has legacy necessities.
We’ve assist alongside the best way for those who expertise compatibility points when testing your web sites in IE mode. You will get no-cost remediation help for these points from our App Guarantee compatibility specialists by submitting a request for help or by emailing us at [email protected].
When you’ve completed establishing IE mode and testing your websites, you should use the DisableIE coverage as the ultimate step to redirect your customers from IE to Microsoft Edge to allow them to begin utilizing IE mode.
Learn to arrange IE mode right here or discover the FAQ.
The best factor to do is to begin utilizing Microsoft Edge right this moment
As an alternative of ready to be redirected to Microsoft Edge, the simplest factor to do is to get began with Microsoft Edge right this moment. When you’re utilizing Home windows, you possibly can open Microsoft Edge from the Home windows Begin menu or by clicking the Microsoft Edge icon for those who see it in your desktop or taskbar.
Microsoft Edge icon on the Home windows 11 taskbar and within the Begin menu
If it’s your first-time utilizing Microsoft Edge, you’ll be guided by way of a fast arrange course of that features importing your information—full this, and also you’re set. When you’ve opened Microsoft Edge earlier than and have to import your information from Web Explorer, comply with the steps within the video supplied within the part above.
The very best half? When you’re arrange in Microsoft Edge, you’ll be prepared to make use of it if you improve to Home windows 11. Whereas Web Explorer shouldn’t be accessible on Home windows 11, Microsoft Edge is the very best browser for Home windows, and it consists of IE mode, so all you’ll have to do is signal into Microsoft Edge and get to searching!
Microsoft Edge can also be accessible on different platforms, together with macOS, iOS, Android and Linux. Obtain right here.
The way forward for Web Explorer is in Microsoft Edge
When you’ve got ever used IE to discover the web, we wish to share our deepest thanks for being part of this journey with us. You’ve used it to construct apps to help your companies and to attach with folks around the globe; in doing so, you have got been instrumental in how the net has progressed. Whereas we bid farewell to Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge stands able to be your new on a regular basis browser for work, life and all the pieces in between. With IE mode, Microsoft Edge gives unmatched compatibility for the web, whether or not the web site was constructed 10 years or 10 days in the past. The way forward for Web Explorer is in Microsoft Edge, supplying you with a sooner, safer and extra trendy browser.
Browse on, web explorers.
Extra sources for IT Professionals
- Watch a video with demos to grasp IE mode: https://aka.ms/IEmodewebinar
For extra movies, see the IE mode playlist: https://aka.ms/IEmodePlaylist - Arrange IE mode with a guided instrument: https://aka.ms/configureIEmode
Contains steering on easy methods to stock your websites: https://aka.ms/IEmodeDiscovery - For recommendations on frequent situations, learn this troubleshooting information: https://aka.ms/IEmodeTSG
- To check IE mode, think about using IE Driver: https://aka.ms/IEmodeDriver
- Wrap up IE retirement, with Disable IE Coverage: https://aka.ms/IEtoEdgeBlog7
- Nonetheless have questions? Strive the FAQ: https://aka.ms/IEmodeFAQ
