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I believe many people often see the concept of IE in popular science magazines, and they want to know what exactly does IE mean? What role does IE play in the computer field? Let us find out together below. Details 01
Formerly known as Microsoft Internet Explorer (before version 6) and Windows Internet Explorer (versions 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11), referred to as IE. Before IE7, the Chinese literal translation was "Internet Pathfinder", but after IE7, it was officially called "IE Browser". 02
The IE development plan began in the summer of 1994. In order to resist the then mainstream Netscape browser (Netscape Navigator), Microsoft wanted to develop its own browser in Windows. But Microsoft didn't have time to start from scratch, so Microsoft teamed up with Spyglass, so IE was derived from an early commercial patented web browser, Spyglass Mosaic. Although Spyglass Mosaic was not the same as NCSA Mosaic (the first and most widely used web browser) ) is very similar, but Spyglass Mosaic is relatively unknown and uses a small amount of NCSA Mosaic source code. 03
On October 15, 2015, Microsoft announced that it would stop providing technical support for multiple older versions of the Internet Explorer browser on January 12, 2016. Microsoft said on its official website that Internet Explorer browser users must update their browsers before this date, noting that only the latest versions will continue to receive updates and security patches. As a result, IE browser must be updated to IE 9 in the Windows Vista SP2 operating system, and IE browser must be updated to IE 11 in Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. 04
Since IE was born in 1995, as of 2014, there have been 11 major versions. The earliest version number of IE1 was 4.40.308, because Microsoft had not purchased the source code of Spyglass Mosaic at that time. When it came to IE2 and IE3, Microsoft also noted version 2 (4.40.516) and version 3 (4.70.1158), indicating that IE It will soon become a Microsoft-exclusive software. It wasn't until IE4 that Microsoft finally "righted" the 4. 05
Internet Explorer has been criticized primarily for its security. Many spyware, adware and computer viruses are rampant on the Internet because of Internet Explorer's security vulnerabilities and cracks in the security structure. Sometimes browsing some malicious websites will be automatically installed maliciously. This is called "forced installation": filling in false descriptions in the ActiveX security description to hide the actual purpose of the software and misleading users to install some malicious software.