IE browser officially retires a brutal competition and alternatives will still be staged

Wen | Jia Li

Microsoft Edge browser posted that at 21:00, June 15, 2022, Beijing time, the IE browser officially retired. IE was released in the summer of 1995. In the summer of 2022, its final journey was over. The topic of "Microsoft Permanent Close IE Browser" immediately rushed to the hot search. Some netizens said "goodbye! My youth", and some netizens said, "I hope not to delay normal business." In fact, the mainstream browser can achieve most of the functions of IE, and the old websites will gradually be upgraded. However, the industry is currently looking forward to the emergence of domestic self -developed browsers. The end of the IE browser ignored the end of IE's end of IE. As early as 2016, Microsoft stopped the safe update of the old version of the IE browser. A month ago, Microsoft also issued a preview that IE will be completely terminated, and the EDGE browser, which is also owned by Microsoft, "takes on". IE browser is called "Internet Explorer". It was launched in 1995. It pre -installed as Windows's first default browser through the system. As soon as the IE browser came out, it had a huge download. With the rapid occupation of the Windows system, IE browsers accounted for 95%of the market share in 2003, becoming the world's most widely used online browser. It is also the golden age of IE browser. At that time, in the computer class, the blue shoe cover and the blue IE also left the memory of many netizens. From 2001 to 2006, the IE browser stopped updating for five years, and has not brought much surprise to netizens since then. At this time, more and more lightweight, simple, compatible, and functional browser appeared one after another, and the market share of the IE browser was grabbed. "The IE browser stopped for a long time and ignored innovative research and development, which caused its experience and compatibility to become worse and worse. The long -term security issues have gradually become highlighted. The IE7 version has become the last peak of the IE browser. The subsequent IE8, IE10 and Although the IE11 version has been iterated, it is still rapidly surpassed by Google and other, and has lost its competitiveness. "Yuan Shuai, the founder of the joint founder and the digital expert, said in an interview with the Securities Daily. Statistical website Statcounter data shows that the market share of the IE browser is now less than 2%. Regarding the official shutdown of IE, insiders of Edge said that in the past period, the company retained its main consideration of corporate compatibility. However, due to the lack of updates, there is a large number of hidden safety hazards. The mainstream browser will gradually be replaced and compatible. It is understood that during the use of the browser, users will still encounter some websites to display in IE mode to normally access. In this regard, Edge's internal personnel told the "Securities Daily" reporter: "At present, the new version of the EDGE browser has achieved the IE mode adaptation. IE users can browse through this model in the EDGE browser. EDGE browser adopts adoption Chromium kernel can meet the adaptation needs of IE code. "He said that users can open the automatic mode in the Edge browser and browse the website that adapted to IE. It is understood that not only the Edge browser, but also a considerable number of browsers that are already compatible with some functions of IE, such as the 360 ​​security browser's IE8 version. At the same time, many browsers such as Baidu and Cheetah support many functions such as browser expansion. Today, Huawei has also joined the browser market. "At present, many old websites still have the phenomenon that can only be accessed in the IE mode, but the low version of the IE usage is already very low. After the IE closure, the old website will be gradually upgraded, and Microsoft will accelerate at the same time. Instead of replacement of low -version IE browser, mainstream domestic browsers will also gradually achieve replacement and compatibility. "Yuan Bo, a researcher at the Institute of Research, told the Securities Daily reporter. Zhang Shule, an Internet industry analyst, believes that domestic browsers mainly use two modes: compatibility and speed. In response to market demand, a series of cloud storage services have been added to quickly complete the coverage of IE. Will the domestic self -developed browser kernel still appear? "Except for Apple's Safari browser and less influential Opera browser, the mainstream browser is basically based on Google's Chromium, or it is developed on Google's Chromium core. Therefore Turned to unification. This is why IE browser is eliminated by Microsoft. At present, the Chromium kernel market share is the first, and 90 % of the browsers adopt the kernel or include its dual core. " It is still expected that the giants such as Huawei can bring the real self -developed domestic browser core. "It is understood that the four earliest cores of the browser are TIDENT (also known as IE kernel) represented by IE browsers, and the Firefox browser The representative GECKO, Webkit represented by Safari browser, and Presto represented by Opera browser. Chromium is the open source browser core developed by Google in 2008 based on a fast -known WebKit rendering engine core, and then it will open the source code. In recent years, the Chrome browser kernel is collectively referred to as the Chromium kernel or Chrome kernel.

Because Chromium is open source, in order to avoid a large amount of manpower and material development, most of the global developers regard the standards of open ecological Chromium as the industry standards it follows. Wait for a group of browsers. When Microsoft gave up its own Trident kernel and turned the new Edge browser to the Chromium ecology, it was also destined that the browser market will gradually form a unique pattern of the WebKit kernel. According to data from the international statistics website Statcounter, as of the end of March this year, Google Chrome browser ranked first in the browser market with a share of 67.55%. The share of Safari browser and Edge browser accounted for 9.75%and 8.81%, respectively. Insiders believe that the development of a mature browser core requires huge manpower and funds, and its code amount is tens of millions of hundreds of millions. If you hire 1,000 skilled engineers for development, it takes more than 5 years to develop it. In the process, in the process The labor cost alone is as high as billions of yuan. After decades of development, today's browsers have been systematized and extremely complicated, and they have continued to upgrade iterative. This has also made many manufacturers and developers go. "my country currently lacks self -developed kernel technology. Most developers are developed based on IE and Webkit dual -nuclear development. Finally, they have switched to Chromium kernels. Under the trend of the mobile Internet era, the two major PC Internet entrances of browsers and search engines are not. No matter how effective. Therefore, the kernel research and development of the browser did not attract too many 'big guys'. It is really difficult to start another stove. Obviously, in the face of competition, it is the most direct path to master the right to speak. "Zhang Shule believes. Today, many browsers such as Firefox, Google, 360, Sogou, Cheetah, and Cheetah have started competition, and the browser has gradually become one of the entrances of the Yuan universe. In the future, for browser manufacturers, if you cannot have the core of independent research and development, it will inevitably experience a cruel competition and replacement. Recommended reading

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