The most downloaded Internet Explorer Add-ons & Plugins software, including Adobe Flash Player, Free Video Downloader. The most downloaded Internet Explorer Add-ons & Plugins software, including Adobe Flash Player, Free Video Downloader.The most downloaded Internet Explorer Add-ons & Plugins software, including Adobe Flash Player, Free Video Downloader.
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft
Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as
part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It
was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free
downloads, or in service packs, and included in the OEM service
releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows.
Internet Explorer is one of
the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and
2003. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), as well as with the growing popularity of
operating systems such as OS X, Linux and Android that do not run
Internet Explorer. Estimates for Internet Explorer's overall market share range from 27.4% to 54.13%,
as of October 2012(browser market share is notoriously difficult to calculate).
Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on
Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1000 people working on it by 1999.
Since its first release,
Microsoft has added features and technologies such as basic table display (in version 1.5); XMLHttpRequest (in version 5), which aids
creation of dynamic web pages; and Internationalized Domain Names (inversion 7), which allow
Web sites to have native-language addresses with non-Latin characters. The browser has also received scrutiny
throughout its development for use of third-party technology (such as the source code of Spyglass Mosaic, used without royalty in early versions) and
security and privacy vulnerabilities, and both the United States and the European
Union have alleged that integration of Internet Explorer with Windows
has been to the detriment of other browsers.
The latest stable release is Internet Explorer 11, with
an interface allowing for use as both a desktop application, and as a Windows 8 application.
Versions of Internet Explorer
for other operating systems have also been produced, including an Xbox 360 version called
Internet Explorer for Xbox and an embedded OEM version called Pocket Internet
Explorer, later rebranded Internet Explorer Mobile,
which is currently based on Internet Explorer 9 and made for Windows Phone, Windows CE, and previously, based on
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Mobile. It remains in development
alongside the desktop versions. Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for UNIX(Solaris and HP-UX)
have been discontinued.
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