Internet Explorer, The Love-To-Hate-It Web Browser, Will Die Next Year

MUNICH, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 06: In this photo illustration Google’s Chrome browser shortcut, Google Inc.’s new Web browser, is displayed next to Mozilla Firefox shortcut and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser shortcut, on an laptop. (Photo Illustration by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

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Internet Explorer is nearing the end of a long and slow death, Microsoft announced this week.

At 25 years old, the much-reviled web browser that once dominated the Internet couldn’t shake its reputation as the slow, buggy net-surfing option.

Microsoft has been stepping away from the product since at least 2015, when it introduced its successor, Microsoft Edge (previously known as Project Spartan). By mid-June of next year, the Internet Explorer desktop app will finally be put to rest.