Microsoft Corp. is finally retiring its Internet Explorer on Wednesday, putting an end to a quarter-century-old app while also sparking a small panic among businesses and government agencies that built internal systems around the unpopular browser.<\/p>\n
Japan may be the country most affected by the move, as\u00a0a survey<\/a><\/strong> in March found that 49% of companies in the Asian nation still use IE.<\/p>\n Among them, the most common use was for in-house management, data exchange and accounting systems.<\/p>\n All of those should have been updated or transitioned to different software in the time since Microsoft announced its IE retirement plans a year ago<\/a><\/strong>, but the Nikkei reports that\u00a0many procrastinated<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Businesses across the country are now having to move swiftly to ensure they\u2019re still able to run operations that previously relied on apps built atop Microsoft\u2019s long-tenured browser.<\/p>\n Internet Explorer, once the globe\u2019s dominant browser and the de-facto setter of web standards, fell out of favor with its IE6 version, which was marred by feature bloat and frustrating performance.<\/p>\n Faster and better browsers like Google\u2019s Chrome and Mozilla\u2019s Firefox took over and IE\u2019s share of the worldwide market was a negligible 0.64% last month, according to Statcounter.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s successor to IE, called Edge, is a browser built on the same basic platform as Chrome, called Chromium, and is thus compatible with Chrome extensions and supports much of the same functionality.<\/p>\n Microsoft has integrated an IE mode inside Edge, which it will support for an additional period of time beyond today.<\/p>\n Microsoft is finally retiring its Internet Explorer on Wednesday, putting an end to a quarter-century-old app while also sparking a small panic among businesses and government agencies that built internal systems around the unpopular browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":449024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[983,123],"class_list":["post-449022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449026,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449022\/revisions\/449026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read:\u00a0Internet Explorer ends with a whimper<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"