Internet Explorer (IE) -- sometimes referred to as Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) -- is the
most widely used World Wide Web browser.
It is bundled with the Microsoft Windows operating system and can also be downloaded from
Microsoft's Web site.
IE competes with other Web browsers, notably Firefox, an open
source browser developed using the code from Netscape
Navigator. Netscape was famously purchased by AOL.
Internet Explorer has gone through seven versions and many patches in responses to targeted
attacks on flaws in the programming of the application since its initial release.
The next iteration, IE7, offers users many of the features of competing browsers, including
tabbed browsing, support for cascading style
sheets, RSS
feeds and the promise of increased security against malwareFirefox, Apple
Computer's Safari,
Opera
and Mosaic,
developed in 1993 and the original code base for Netscape's browser, Lynx.
Contributor(s): Chuck Bury
This was last updated in November 2008
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