All excellent things, like all ordinary things, must come to an end. Internet Explorer, the search engine known for being sluggish and problematic, is retiring at the age of 26 and handing over the browsing baton to Microsoft Edge. “You may have observed our transition away from Internet Explorer (‘IE’) support over the last year, such as an announcement of the end of IE support by Microsoft 365 online services,” stated Sean Lyndersay, General Manager at Microsoft Edge Enterprise.
“Today, we’re at the next stage of that journey: we’re announcing that Microsoft Edge will be the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10.” When it was stated that fewer Microsoft 365 applications and services will support Internet Explorer 11, the browser entered browser hospice care in 2021. Microsoft Edge’s greater performance meant it would be taking over from its clumsy predecessor.
Legacy websites and applications, on the other hand, have nothing to worry. Internet Explorer’s soul lives on in an “IE mode” embedded into Microsoft Edge, so they’ll still work on the new platform. “With Microsoft Edge capable of [accessing old sites] and more, the Internet Explorer 11 desktop program for certain versions of Windows 10 will be discontinued and fall out of service on June 15, 2022,” Lyndersay stated.
Internet Explorer is no longer supported. Bliss has finally identified the small e that formerly occupied a prominent place in our search history. The default computer wallpaper for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system is called Bliss. It’s a snapshot of a green hill and a blue sky with clouds taken in California’s Wine Country’s Los Carneros American Viticultural Area. The shot was taken by former National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear in January 1996, and Microsoft purchased the rights in 2000. The shot has been viewed by billions of people, perhaps making it the most viewed photograph in history.
In 1996, former National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear, a resident of nearby Napa Valley, shot the image on film with a medium-format camera on his way to see his girlfriend. While it was commonly assumed subsequently that the image had been digitally modified or even made using tools like Adobe Photoshop, O’Rear claims that this was never the case. He gave it to Corbis to use as a stock image. Microsoft developers picked a digital version of the photograph and licensed it from O’Rear some years later.
It was stated that over the next decade, it was the most viewed image on the planet. The terrain in the photograph has altered since it was taken, with grapevines grown on the hill and a field in the front, rendering O’Rear’s photograph unreplicable for the time being. That hasn’t prevented others from attempting it, and some of their efforts have been shown in art shows.
