Internet Explorer will stop operating on June 15

• Technology Internet Explorer disappears after more than 25 years in operation: this is what you need to know

Microsoft

will stop supporting

, the latest available version of its browser, this Wednesday, June 15, to exclusively offer

, its current browser.

The company announced the end of

support for its Microsoft 365 online ecosystem services in May of last year, when it indicated that the

would no longer be supported for certain versions of Windows 10.

"With

, we provide a path to the future of the web while respecting the past of the web. Change was necessary, but we didn't want to leave behind apps and sites that were trusted and still work," he said at the time.

In the statement that made the end of

official , updated at the end of last May, he explained that Edge not only offered greater security and was more modern than its predecessor, but also guaranteed "

and applications old and inherited from other programs".

"Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode built in, so you can access those older

-based websites and apps

directly from Microsoft Edge," Microsoft said.

In this update, it has also indicated that the latest

of its browser would no longer be able to be used as of June 15 to make way for

as the main web browser developed by Microsoft.

Likewise, the company has highlighted that, compared to the monthly security updates characteristic of

, Microsoft Edge is capable of issuing

patches for immediate vulnerabilities "in a matter of days, if not hours."

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

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