I’ve recounted the history of Internet Explorer (IE) so many times, it’s hardly worth the effort at this point. Suffice to say that Microsoft’s browser has seen times both boom and bust, alternating between periods of great innovation and sad stagnation.
From a technical standpoint, from a user experience standpoint, we’re in a far more positive era now than we were in the early 2000s, when IE was left to wither as new competitors like Firefox arrived, sniping at IE’s usage share and adding functionality at a rapid clip.
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