You would have to either invest in a separate Windows device or read this post till the end to know about few better alternatives. If you have a Mac device with you and you want to perform cross browser testing of your website on Internet Explorer or Edge, then you are out of luck. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.Internet Explorer and it’s newer cousin Edge browsers work only on Windows machines.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1.7 for Classic Mac OS PPC Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (.6307)
Product type Application Web Browser Vendor Microsoft Release date 1999 User interface GUI Platform Windows Unix MacOS Mac OS X Download count 259 (22 for release) Downloads Download name But is archived here, as much software (stupidly) requires it. Internet Explorer is freely redistributable. Something that would have been unthinkable back then. In 1998, Microsoft was hit with an antitrust suit, much of which involved their browser bundling.īy around 2004, Microsoft had destroyed most of their competition, dominated the browser market, and let IE stagnate until released Firefox.Īfter Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft supplanted IE with "Microsoft Edge" which eventually switched to the Google Chrome rendering engine. Microsoft fiercely pushed third party products to bundle Internet Explorer, and web sites to work only in Internet Explorer. Microsoft aggressively and abusively positioned Internet Explorer as part of their "browser war" to eliminate all competition. Home Internet access was still somewhat new and competed against proprietary services like CompuServe, AOL, and Microsoft's own MSN. At various points, Internet Explorer was also available for MacOS, Solaris, and HP-UX.Īt its 1995 release, Internet Explorer competed with the Mosaic web browser and Netscape Navigator. It was initially based on Spyglass Mosaic. Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser application created by Microsoft primarily for Microsoft Windows.
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