Following active attacks, Microsoft has drastically restricted Internet Explorer mode in Edge. Attackers even used zero-days for system takeovers. The Internet Explorer is not dead yet. At least not ...

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 ...