However, its popularity has dropped thanks to the development of other high-quality products such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, that has managed to win over many of its users. It was one of the most used browsers in the world, reaching a market share of over 90% of users in the world between 20. There have been versions for Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8.1, being Internet Explorer 11 the latest stable version.
Usually abbreviated as IE, it was first released in 1995 for Windows 95 and it has been present on all the operating systems of the North American company until it was replaced by Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is definitely one of the most veteran web browsers around.