1.0 version
Main entry: Internet Explorer 1
The first version of Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer 1 for short) made its debut in August 2006 1995. This is a redesigned version of the telescope mosaic [7]. It's included in Microsoft Plus! And Internet Quick Start Toolkit! At the beginning of development, the Internet Explorer team started with about six people [8]. Internet Explorer 1.5 was released a few months after the release of 1.0, and it designed and added support for basic table presentation of Windows NT. But they didn't pay royalties to Spyglass, which led to a lawsuit and a fine of more than one billion dollars.
[Edit] Version 2.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 2
1995165438+1released on October 22nd, ie browser 2. This version is designed for Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5 and NT 4.0. It is characterized by supporting SSL, Cookies, VRML, RSA information and RSS. But the Mac version was not released until 1996 1. Version 2 is included in Windows 95 OSR 1 and Microsoft's Internet starter kit. [9]
[Edit] Version 3.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 3
1August, 1995, the first version of Internet Explorer was released, but its first version was not widely used, and it was not until the release of version 3.0 that this situation began to be rewritten. Version 3.0 was released on August 1996 13. It is the first version developed from the source code of Spyglass (but it still uses the "technology" of Spyglass, so the documentation of the program still retains the copyright information of Spyglass), and it is also the first mainstream browser to support CSS technology. It introduces ActiveX control, Java Applet, embedded web multimedia and Internet content selection platform system to support content metadata. Compared with its main competitor Netscape Navigator at that time, these improvements are very representative. Version 3.0 is also bundled with Internet Mail and News (the predecessor of Outlook Express), NetMeeting and Windows Address Book, which is also preset in Windows 95 OSR 2. Version 3.0 is considered to be the first most popular version of Internet Explorer, but a few months after its release, hackers discovered several security and privacy vulnerabilities. [ 10]
[Edit] Version 4.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 4
Version 4.0 was released in September, 1997, which deepened the integration of browser and operating system. By installing version 4.0 on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4 and selecting the Windows Desktop Update function, the traditional Windows Explorer can be updated to a new version with a similar interface to the web browser. Users can also embed the web browsing function into the Windows desktop through Active Desktop, but this integration behavior has also been criticized (see the case of the United States v. Microsoft), and this function has been deleted in the later version installation. Version 4.0 introduces the grouping principle, allowing companies to set and lock browser parameter settings. Internet mail and news were replaced by Outlook Express, and Microsoft chat and improved NetMeeting were also bundled in IE. This version is also included in the first version of Windows 98. [ 1 1][ 12]
[Edit] Versions 5.0 and 5.5
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 5
Version 5.0 was released on1March 8, 19991.It is the last version that can run on Windows 3. 1. At the same time, it is also attached to the second edition of Windows 98 and Office 2000 (Windows 2000 comes with version 5.0 1). This version is another representative version, which introduces bidirectional text, edge tags, XML, XSL and the function of saving web pages in MHTML format. Subsequently, version 5.5 was released in mid-July 2000, which improved the print preview function, CSS and HTML standard support and application programming interface. This version is included in Windows Me. [ 13][ 14][ 15]
[Edit] Version 6.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 6
Version 6.0 was released on August 27th, 20001year, several weeks before the official release date of Windows XP. This version includes enhanced DHTML, content restriction of embedded web framework, and partial support for CSS level 1, DOM level 1 and SMIL 2.0[ 16]. The MSXML engine will be updated to version 3.0. Other new features include a new version of IEAK, a comprehensive version of Media Bar and Windows Messenger, error collection, automatic image resizing, P3P and a new look, which can cooperate with the "Luna" interface of Windows XP. In 2002, the function of Gopher was disabled, and the support for Gopher was cancelled in version 7.0. [ 17][ 18]
[Edit] Version 7.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 7
Main interface change
On February 15, 2005, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, announced at the RSA seminar in San Francisco that he would release a new version of the browser. [19] The reason for launching the new browser is that the market share of ie browser is gradually eroded by Mozilla Firefox. In addition, Microsoft announced that version 7.0 can only be used for Windows XP SP2 or higher operating systems, including Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP 1 and Windows Vista. The first preview version of Internet Explorer was launched on July 27th, 2005, which was mainly used for technical testing. The first public beta version was released on June 365438+1October 3 1 day, 2006, and the version was Beta 2 preview. The final public beta was launched on June, 2006 10. Version 7.0 claims to protect users from phishing attacks and other malicious software attacks. Users can fully control ActiveX and better security architecture, including separating from Windows system and not being as tightly integrated as before, thus improving security. [20] In addition, the new version includes fixing some bugs in the program, strengthening support for various Internet standards, enhancing support for HTML 4.0 1 and CSS 2, increasing paging browsing, supporting search boxes of various search engines, RSS browsers, supporting internationalized domain names, and anti-phishing filters. You can even block some program types, such as Flash movies and Java. [2 1]
On February 12, 2008, Microsoft upgraded all Windows browsers to version 7.0 through Windows Update for "security reasons", but Windows 2000 did not support version 7.0, so there was no mandatory upgrade [22].
[Edit] Version 8.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 8
Version 8.0 was added to the next operating system Windows 7 at the beginning of October 23rd, 2009/kloc-0, and the beta version was released in the first quarter of 2008. Users can delete Internet Explorer from the console. [23][24]
On March 5th, 2008, Microsoft released version 8.0 Beta1. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit environments of Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. [25]
On July 28th, 2008, Andy Zeigler, the project manager of Microsoft IE, revealed on Microsoft's official blog that IE8 has added three new functions to enhance its reliability, namely, loose coupling IE(LCIE), automatic crash recovery and Windows error reporting.
On August 27th, 2008, Microsoft released the beta version of 8.0 Beta 2, which can be downloaded from its official website. Provide English, Japanese, standard Chinese, simplified Chinese, German and other 2 1 language versions.
Compared with IE7, the beta version of 8.0 has made great progress in network speed and W3C Internet standard support, and successfully passed the Acid2 test. However, the test results of ACID 3 (released two days before the release of 8.0beta1) are still far behind the browsers such as Firefox and Opera.
In order to consider the compatibility of websites made for Internet Explorer in the early days, web page producers can use HTML.
On June 26th, 2009, 8.0 RC 1 was officially released. At present, this version is available for download in 25 languages, which fixes the errors and security problems found in the beta version and enhances the stability and performance of the software.
On March 9, 2009, the official version of 8.0 was released.
[Edit] Version 9.0
Main entrance: Internet Explorer 9
The interface is greatly simplified and the speed is improved.
The latest browser version developed by Microsoft will abandon IE's existing JavaScript engine and adopt a brand-new JavaScript engine (code name: Chakra)[26].
Internet Explorer 9 browser no longer supports Windows XP and its previous versions, nor does it support Windows Vista SP 1 and RTM versions. According to the tests of different authorities, Internet Explorer 9 browser has faster parsing speed than Firefox 4 browser. [27][28]
IE9 was launched in March, 2065438+0114, with new icon. IE9' s interface has become very simple, with only the forward and backward buttons and the address bar, and the speed has also been greatly improved. Moreover, IE9 is the first version with hardware acceleration in IE, and it achieved 100/ 100 in the Acid3 test. [29]
[Edit] Version 10.0
Main entry: Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 10 platform preview 1 at the MIX1conference. On 20 1 1 March, the Internet Explorer 10 platform preview version 2 was released, which was bundled in the Windows developer preview version. In September, Internet Explorer 10 platform preview version 3 was released, which was pre-installed in Windows 8 consumer preview version. At present, the latest version of Internet Explorer 10 platform preview is 5, which is bundled with Windows 8 Realese preview for download.
Internet Explorer 10 is pre-installed in Windows 8 and Windows Server 20 12. Windows Vista will not be supported by IE 10. In other words, only Windows 7 can upgrade IE 9 to Internet Explorer 10 after IE 10 is released.