1Passage 6-MIN READ
Microsoft will no longer support Internet Explorer, the internet browser that many people loved to hate.
The big technology company based in Redmond, Washington, said Internet Explorer, or IE, will end on June 15.
The 27-year-old browser now joins other kinds of technology products that are no longer used: BlackBerry phones, Palm Pilots and dial-up modems.
IE’s end was not a surprise. Microsoft announced the move last year. The technology company has been pushing users to its Edge browser, which was launched in 2015.
The company made clear that it was time to move on.
Sean Lyndersay is the general manager of Microsoft Edge Enterprise. Lyndersay described Microsoft Edge as “a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer,” in a May 2021 blog post.
Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995. At the same time, Netscape Navigator was the most popular browser. Internet Explorer’s launch signaled the beginning of the end of Navigator.
Microsoft went on to tie IE and its Windows operating system tightly together.
But Microsoft faced legal battles in the U.S. in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s over its efforts to keep out competing browsers.
The company also had problems with European officials who said that tying Internet Explorer to Windows gave it an unfair advantage over other browsers. Other browsers included Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera and Google’s Chrome.
Users complained that IE was slow, likely to crash and easily hacked. IE’s market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90 percent, began to decrease as users found other browsers.
2Word List
1.browser [??bra??z??(r)]
n.浏览器;浏览程序(用于在互联网上查阅信息);浏览图书报刊者;逛商店的人
In your Web browser’s cache are the most recent Web files that you have downloaded.
网页浏览器的高速缓存区里有你最近下载的网页文件。
2.technology [tek??n??l??d??i]
n.技术;科技;工艺;工程技术;技术学;工艺学;技术性机器(或设备)
His music is an integration of tradition and new technology.
他的音乐结合了传统和新技术。
3.products [??pr??d??kts]
n.产品;制品;(自然、化学或工业过程的)产物，生成物;产儿;产物;结果
Limited resources are restricting our capacity for developing new products.
有限的资源正制约着我们开发新产品的能力。
4.version [??v??????n]
n.变体;变种;型式;(从不同角度的)说法;描述;(电影、剧本、乐曲等的)版本;改编形式;改写本
This scene was cut from the final version of the movie.
那部电影的最终版本把这场戏删掉了。
5.tightly [??ta??tli]
adv.紧紧地;牢固地;紧密地
She held her little bundle tightly in her arms.
她怀中紧紧地抱着襁褓中的婴儿。
6.hacked [h??kt]
v.砍;劈;猛踢;非法侵入(他人计算机系统)
Matthew desperately hacked through the leather.
马修拼命地将皮革砍穿。
3Translation
微软将不再支持 Internet Explorer，这是许多人又爱又恨的网页浏览器。
微软是一家大型科技公司，总部位于华盛顿州雷德蒙德，其表示Internet Explorer（IE ）将于6月15日停止运营。
这个拥有27年历史的浏览器与其他技术产品相合作，但这些产品已经不在使用了，比如黑莓手机、掌上电脑和拨号调制解调器等。
IE的“退休”并不令人意外。微软去年宣布了这一举措。这家科技公司一直在推动用户使用其于2015年推出的Edge浏览器。
该公司明确表示，是时候往前走了。
肖恩·林德赛是Edge合作伙伴组项目经理。林德赛在2021年5月的博客文章中将Microsoft Edge描述为“有着比 Internet Explorer 更快、更安全和更现代的浏览体验”。
微软于1995年发布了Internet Explorer的第一个版本。同时，网景浏览器曾是最受大家欢迎的浏览器。Internet Explorer的推出标志着Navigator时代的结束。
微软之后继续将IE与自己的微软操作系统紧密结合在一起。
但在20年代末和21年代初，微软在美国面临众多法律纠纷，原因是其努力阻止竞争浏览器。
微软还与欧洲官员发生了争执，官员们还提到，将Internet Explorer与微软捆绑在一起使其比其他浏览器具有不公平的优势。其他浏览器包括Mozilla的火狐浏览器、欧朋浏览器和谷歌的Chrome浏览器。
此前用户抱怨IE速度慢，容易崩溃，容易被黑。IE的市场份额在21年代初期超过90%，长久时间之后，用户发现其他浏览器的好用之处，随之IE的用户数量而开始下降。
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