Thomas Reardon conceived of and began work on Internet Explorer in 1994 while working on Windows 95 at Microsoft. Internet Explorer was first released on August 16, 1995 as part of the Plus! addon for Windows 95. It was initially available for Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris OS and HP-UX and in 95 languages. Over time, Internet Explorer gained market share but has declined in recent years from 23% in 2011 to 10% in 2014 as other browsers like Chrome have increased in popularity.

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3. Original
author
Thomas Reardon
Initial
release
August 16, 1995
Written in C++
Operating
system
Windows,
Mac OS X,
Solaris OS,
HP-UX
Available
in
95 languages
Type Web Browser, Feed reader
Web site Microsoft.com/ie
Basic Information of Internet Explorer

4. Thomas Reardon. He is
34 years old. He is one of
the top innovators under
35. Thomas Reardon is
most well known for his
work on Internet
Explorer. He started
working for Microsoft in
the summer of 1994
starting off with Windows
95.
Original Author

5. Industry Computer software
Computer Hardware
Founded April 4, 1997
Founder Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Products Windows
Microsoft Office
Skype
Bing
Internet Explorer
Surface, etc

6. Internet Explorer
Born
Early 1994 Thomas Reardon
conceived Internet Explorer
while working on Windows 95
Late1994 Microsoft licensed
Spyglass Mosaic.
Summer of 1994 work began
on Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer debuted
August 16, 1995
Version 1 was released as part
of Plus! for Windows 95.

8. Internet
Explorer
Logo
Early
logo

9. Year Total IE11 IE10 IE9 IE8 IE7 IE6
2014(Jan) 10% 2.5% 1.7% 2.3% 2.9% 0.4% 0.1%
2013 12.0 % 3.1 % 3.2 % 4.9 % 0.7 % 0.1 %
2012
16.7 % 0.1 % 6.1 % 8.0 % 1.9 % 0.6 %
2011
23.2 % 3.6 % 12.9 % 4.4 % 2.3 %
2010
31.0 % 15.7 % 8.1 % 7.2 %

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