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Today the browser Internet Explorer is retired by Microsoft after 27 years of service. At the time when I stopped using it in 2003, Internet Explorer had reached it’s peak with 95% of the users. A lifespan of almost three decades is unfathomable long in the world of software.
Never thought I’d see the day when Microsoft pulls the plug on Internet Explorer. If I had told anyone about this ten years ago, they would laugh out loud and say that it would be too absurd to take seriously.
Microsoft’s MIX09 conference in Las Vegas has started and today the first sharp version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released. The last months have seen a harsh public humiliation against the old version 6 where large sites actually warned users.
Once again the MIX conference is being arranged at the Venetian in Las Vegas, just as last year. One of the most interesting announcements this far is the release of Internet Explorer beta 1. Judging from the distance in time between IE6 and IE7, this is a big step forward.
Recently Microsoft announced that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer will feature a special meta element, which will trigger the standards mode.
The release version of Internet Explorer 7 is now available for download. The final version has improved since the early CTP versions.
Following the events of SXSW in Austin, the MIX06 conference was the next logical step. For the last days the Venetian in Las Vegas has been hosting this event focusing on Microsoft web technology.
This site has now been online for a decade. Way back in 1994, the tools were quite simple as I wrote plain HTML by hand in Emacs on a Solaris machine and viewed the result in the Mosaic browser.