Internet Explorer 6 Standalone Installers
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of developed by and included as part of the line of, starting in 1995.The first version of, (at that time named Microsoft Internet Explorer, later referred to as Internet Explorer 1) made its debut on August 17, 1995. It was a reworked version of, which Microsoft licensed from, like many other companies initiating browser development. It was first released as part of the add-on package that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in, and included in the service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows.Originally Microsoft Internet Explorer only ran on Windows using processor. Current versions also run on,. Versions on Windows have supported, and and 32-bit but currently support only 32-bit.
A version exists for called Internet Explorer for Xbox using PowerPC and an embedded OEM version called Pocket Internet Explorer, later rebranded, which is currently based on Internet Explorer 9 and made for using ARMv7, and previously, based on Internet Explorer 7 for. It remains in development alongside the desktop versions.Internet Explorer has supported other operating systems with (using +, PowerPC) and ( using and using ), which have been discontinued.Since its first release, Microsoft has added features and technologies such as basic display (in ); (in ), which adds creation of; and (in ), which allow Web sites to have native-language addresses with non- characters. The browser has also received scrutiny throughout its development for use of third-party technology (such as the of, used without royalty in early versions) and security and privacy, and both and have alleged that integration of Internet Explorer with Windows has been to the detriment of other browsers.The has an interface allowing for use as both a desktop application, and as a application.
See also:IE versions, over time, have had widely varying OS compatibility, ranging from being available for many platforms and several versions of Windows to only a few versions of Windows. Many versions of IE had some support for an older OS but stopped getting updates. The increased growth of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s means that current browsers with small market shares have more total users than the entire market early on. For example, 90% market share in 1997 would be roughly 60 million users, but by the start of 2007 90% market share would equate to over 900 million users. The result is that later versions of IE6 had many more users in total than all the early versions put together.The release of IE7 at the end of 2006 resulted in a collapse of IE6 market share; by February 2007, market version share statistics showed IE6 at about 50% and IE7 at 29%.
Regardless of the actual market share, the most compatible version (across operating systems) of IE was 5.x, which had Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, Unix, and most Windows versions available and supported for a short period in the late 1990s (although 4.x had a more unified codebase across versions). By 2007, IE had much narrower OS support, with the latest versions supporting only Windows XP Service Pack 2 and above. Main article:Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 was released for Windows 95, and on November 22, 1995 (following a 2.0 beta in October).
It featured support for JavaScript, SSL, cookies, frames,. Version 2 was also the first release for and (PPC or 68k), although the Mac version was not released until January 1996 for PPC, and April for 68k. Version 2.1 for the Mac came out in August 1996, although by this time, Windows was getting 3.0.
Version 2 was included in Windows 95 OSR 1 and Microsoft's Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 in early 1996. It launched with twelve languages, including English, but by April 1996, this was expanded to 24, 20, and 9 for Win 95, Win 3.1, and Mac, respectively. The 2.0i version supported double-byte character-set. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3. Main article: Market share history snapshotfor February 2005IE4: 0.07%IE5: 6.17%IE6: 82.79%Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 was released on August 13, 1996 and went on to be much more popular than its predecessors. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 was the first major browser with support, although this support was only partial. It also introduced support for, inline multimedia, and the system for content.
Version 3 also came bundled with, and an early version of the, and was itself included with Windows 95 OSR 2. Version 3 proved to be the first more popular version of Internet Explorer, bringing with it increased scrutiny. In the months following its release, a number of security and privacy vulnerabilities were found by researchers and hackers. This version of Internet Explorer was the first to have the 'blue e' logo. The Internet Explorer team consisted of roughly 100 people during the development of three months.
The first major IE security hole, the Princeton Word Macro Virus Loophole, was discovered on August 22, 1996 in IE3.Backwards compatibility was handled by allowing users who upgraded to IE3 to still use the previous version, because the installation renamed the old version (incorporating the old version number) and stored it in the same directory. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.
Main article: Market share history snapshotfor October 2008IE4: 0.01%IE5: 0.20%IE6: 37.01%IE7: 35.81%Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, released in September 1997, deepened the level of integration between the web browser and the underlying operating system. Installing version 4 on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 and choosing would result in the traditional Windows Explorer being replaced by a version more akin to a web browser interface, as well as the Windows desktop itself being web-enabled via. The integration with Windows, however, was subject to numerous packaging criticisms (see ). This option was no longer available with the installers for later versions of Internet Explorer, but was not removed from the system if already installed. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 introduced support for, allowing companies to configure and lock down many aspects of the browser's configuration as well as support for offline browsing. Internet Mail and News was replaced with, and and an improved NetMeeting were also included.
This version was also included with. New features that allowed users to save and retrieve posts in comment forms were added, but they are not used today. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 offered new features such as easier 128-bit encryption. It also offered a dramatic stability improvement over prior versions, particularly the version, which was especially prone to freezing. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Main article:Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, launched on March 18, 1999, and subsequently included with and bundled with, was another significant release that supported, and the ability to save web pages in format.
IE5 was bundled with. Also, with the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft released the first version of, giving birth to (even though the term 'Ajax' was not coined until years later).
It was the last with a 16-bit version. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, a bug fix version included in, was released in December 1999.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 followed in July 2000, improving its print preview capabilities, CSS and HTML standards support, and developer APIs; this version was bundled with. However, version 5 was the last version for. Version 5.5 was the last to have Compatibility Mode, which allowed to be run side by side with the 5.x series. The IE team consisted of over 1,000 people by 1999, with funding on the order of US$100 million per year. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Main article:Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001, a few months before.
This version included DHTML enhancements, content restricted inline frames, and partial support of CSS level 1, level 1, and 2.0. The engine was also updated to version 3.0. Other new features included a new version of the (IEAK), Media bar, integration, fault collection, automatic image resizing, and a new look-and-feel that was in line with the visual style of Windows XP, when used in Windows XP. Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 offered several security enhancements and coincided with the Windows XP SP1 patch release. In 2002, the was disabled, and support for it was dropped in Internet Explorer 7.
Internet Explorer 6.0 SV1 came out on August 6, 2004 for and offered various security enhancements and new colour buttons on the user interface. Internet Explorer 6 updated the original 'blue e' logo to a lighter blue and more look. Microsoft now considers IE6 to be an obsolete product and recommends that users upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Some corporate IT users have not upgraded despite this, in part because some still use, which will not run Internet Explorer 7 or above.
Microsoft has launched a website, with the goal of getting Internet Explorer 6 usage to drop below 1 percent worldwide. Its usage is 6% globally as of October 2012, and now about 6.3% since June 2013, and depending on the country, the usage differs heavily: while the usage in Norway is 0.1%, it is 21.3% in the People's Republic of China. On January 3, 2012, Microsoft announced that usage of IE6 in the United States had dropped below 1%. Windows Internet Explorer 7.
Main article:Windows Internet Explorer 7 was released on October 18, 2006. It includes bug fixes, enhancements to its support for web standards, with tab preview and management, a multiple-engine search box, a web feeds reader, support (IDN), support, and an anti-phishing filter. With IE7, Internet Explorer has been decoupled from the Windows Shell—unlike previous versions, the Internet Explorer is not hosted in the Windows Explorer process, but rather runs in a separate Internet Explorer process.
It is included with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and is available for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and later. The original release of Internet Explorer 7 required the computer to pass a validation check prior to installing, but on October 5, 2007, removed this requirement. As some statistics show, by mid-2008, Internet Explorer 7 market share exceeded that of Internet Explorer 6 in a number of regions. Windows Internet Explorer 8. Main article:Windows Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009. It is the first version of IE to pass the test, and the last of the major browsers to do so (in the later Test, it only scores 24/100.). According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in, and support were its priorities for IE8.Internet Explorer 8 is the last version of Internet Explorer to run on and; the following version, works only on and later.
Support for Internet Explorer 8 is bound to the lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on as it is considered an OS component, thus it is unsupported on Windows XP due to the for the latter in April 2014. Effective January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer 8 is no longer supported on any client or server version of Windows, due to new policies specifying that only the newest version of IE available for a supported version of Windows will be supported. However several versions will remain supported until their respective, unless otherwise specified. Windows Internet Explorer 9. Main article:Windows Internet Explorer 9 was released on March 14, 2011. Development for Internet Explorer 9 began shortly after the release of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft first announced Internet Explorer 9 at, and spoke mainly about how it takes advantage of hardware acceleration in to improve the performance of and quality of.
At, Microsoft showed and publicly released the first Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 9, a frame for IE9's engine not containing any UI of the browser. Leading up to the release of the final browser, Microsoft released updated platform previews, each featuring improved compiling (32-bit version), improved scores on the, as well as additional standards support, approximately every six weeks.
Ultimately, eight platform previews were released. The first public beta was released at a special event in San Francisco, which was themed around 'the beauty of the web'. The release candidate was released on February 10, 2011, and featured improved performance, refinements to the UI, and further standards support. The final version was released during the (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, on March 14, 2011.Internet Explorer 9 is only supported on, and, and was supported on SP2.
It supports several properties (including border-radius, box-shadow, etc.), and embedded v2 or v4 support via. The 32-bit version has faster performance, this being due to a new JavaScript engine called 'Chakra'. It also features graphics rendering using, hardware-accelerated text rendering using, hardware-accelerated video rendering using, imaging support provided by, and high fidelity printing powered by the print pipeline. IE9 also supports the and tags and the. Internet Explorer 9 initially scored 95/100 on the Acid3 test, but has scored 100/100 since the test was updated in September 2011.Internet Explorer was to be omitted from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in Europe, but Microsoft ultimately included it, with a browser option screen allowing users to select any of several web browsers (including Internet Explorer).Internet Explorer is now available on with support, as of October 2012. Main article:Windows Internet Explorer 10 became generally available on October 26, 2012, alongside and, but is by now supported on Windows Server 2012, while Windows Server 2012 R2 only supports Internet Explorer 11. It became available for on February 26, 2013.
Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 10 in April 2011, at in Las Vegas, releasing the first Platform Preview at the same time. At the show, it was said that was about three weeks in development. This release further improves upon standards support, including HTML5 Drag & Drop and CSS3 gradients. Internet Explorer 10 drops support for and will only run on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and later.Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview was also released on the Windows 8 Release Preview platform.Internet Explorer 11. Main article:Internet Explorer 11 is featured in a update which was released on October 17, 2013. It includes an incomplete mechanism for syncing tabs.
It features a major update to its, enhanced scaling for high DPI screens, prerender and prefetch, decoding, HTML5 full screen, and is the first Internet Explorer to support and Google's protocol (starting at v3). This version of IE has features dedicated to Windows 8.1, including cryptography (WebCrypto)and.Internet Explorer 11 was made available for users to download on November 7, 2013, with in the following weeks.Internet Explorer 11's string now identifies the agent as ' (the underlying layout engine) instead of 'MSIE'. It also announces compatibility with (the layout engine of ).Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer 11, running the WebKit SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, was the fastest browser as of October 15, 2013.
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