Microsoft Internet Explorer Is Finally, Really, Fully Dead

Microsoft finally laid its much maligned web browser to rest on June 15, when it announced that it would cease supporting the software on Windows 10 devices. Scraps of Internet Explorer’s husk will still live on in Microsoft’s Edge browser to support any ancient websites that were built for IE. If someone’s using Internet Explorer on a desktop running Windows 7 or 8, it’ll still work, but Microsoft hasn’t been supporting the software for years.

Not many are bound to mourn the browser’s demise. It was the unwanted U2 album of its era, stuffed into every Windows computer sold in the early aughts, whether you wanted it or not. Internet Explorer was a gold mine for hackers, fraught with countless security flaws. It didn’t help that Microsoft was slow to update the browser to address such threats.

Still, some updates are better than none. Now, even in death Internet Explorer may continue to be a problem for the people still clinging to it. Like the security issues lingering in the zombie remnants of Adobe Flash Player, the specter of Internet Explorer may not be gone entirely.

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