![]() This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. ![]() Internet Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak of 95% usage share by 2003. New feature development for the browser was discontinued in 2016 in favor of its successor, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people involved in the project by 1999. Later versions were available as free downloads or in- service packs and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. ![]() Starting in 1995, it was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. While IE has been retired on most Windows editions, it remains supported on certain editions of Windows, such as Windows 10 LTSB/LTSC. Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a "retired" (or deprecated for most Windows editions) series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.
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