Microsoft’s next browser will not be called Internet Explorer. The software is promised to a slow death.
There are Google Chrome for its simplicity. There Firefox for fans of free and Tor for those who want to protect their privacy. There Safari to watch Apple and Opera conferences for snobs. Finally, there is Internet Explorer.
Chronic acid as a visionary journalist Le Figaro recently cast aspersions on the followers of the Microsoft browser. “At work, Internet Explorer is so unpopular it is better to hide it,” he wrote. Soon, it will not be worth it. The specialized site The Verge says that Microsoft is about to kill slowly brand “Internet Explorer”. She will celebrate next June, twenty spring.
The marketing manager of the firm, Chris Capossela, has announced that the browser bundled with Windows 10, for the time designated by the name of code “Project Spartan” will not be called Internet Explorer. The Honourable browser blue logo will remain in the background for compatibility reasons. But it will no longer proudly among desktop icons between the basket and the workstation.
A monopoly annoying
Why do we hate as Internet Explorer ? The browser was a vain prince and a lazy king. In 1997, the explorer of the Internet was a small program that rose and grapillait market share to the then giant Netscape. After an evening celebrating a new version of the browser in Microsoft’s premises, some jokers had fun asking a giant logo of Internet Explorer before the Netscape offices. Stuffing, recounted at the time by SFGate, is countered by Netscape employees. A mascot several meters high, resembling a dinosaur, then overwrites the logo. His name Mozilla. This is the name that will take the foundation behind the Firefox browser, born from the ashes of Netscape Communicator. Fun omen.
In the early 2000s, Internet Explorer stifles competition. Netscape died and Mozilla Firefox is just spear. The figures for market shares are very volatile from one study to another, but all illustrate the rule of the unloved browser. Microsoft software is preinstalled in all versions of Windows, to become a synonym for the Internet. This monopoly has been repeatedly attacked on the legal and judicial field. In 2000, a US federal judge declared illegal the impossibility for Windows users, remove Internet Explorer from their computers. In 2009, the European Commission manages to bend Microsoft: the company agrees to give the choice to its European users between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.
If the monopoly bothered much, but also because Internet Explorer has long been considered kneaded vulnerabilities. In a ranking of 2006, PC World magazine Internet Explorer 6 was classified among the ten worst tech products of all time. Microsoft then took a long time to fix vulnerabilities, sometimes raw. With its monopoly, Microsoft rested on its laurels for five years: the time it took to go from version 6 to version 7 software
The browser is. then became the prey of jokes: it has become “Internet Exploder” and its slowness has been the subject of many jokes among connoisseurs. What is Internet Explorer? To download another browser.
Ugly Duckling
Overwhelmed by Google Chrome, launched in 2009 and now leader, elbow to elbow with Firefox which enjoys a much better reputation, Internet Explorer plays its ugly duckling status of the Web. The Twitter account of the brand is touching. On YouTube, advertisements depict the geek that forces all his relatives to switch browsers. Internet Explorer has even been adapted into an animated Japanese, in the guise of a young woman named Inori Aizawa.
Today, with versions 10 and 11 Internet Explorer is not a bad browser. It’s not the fastest, it still uses Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, by default, but it is not bad. And despite all of Microsoft’s efforts to win back the heart of Internet, the browser continues its long descent into oblivion. Satya Nadella, successor to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates at the head of the company, must resolve to bury a piece of its history: the name surranné of Internet Explorer.
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