Microsoft shutdown the 27 years old Internet Explorer and ended the support last week. A Korean man Jung Ki-young commemorate the demise by installing headstone for $300. The headstone bearing the famous ‘e’ logo, the dates it existed, and the fitting epitaph “He was a good tool to download other browsers.” The phrase will likely be familiar to fans of Rick and Morty memes.
Jung Ki-young is a software engineer in South Korea.
Jung explained that it took him longer to ensure his websites and apps were compatible with Explorer than with other browsers. But customers kept asking him if their sites looked good on Microsoft’s software, which was used extensively among South Korean businesses for years.
Not only is Internet Explorer no longer supported on certain versions of Windows 10, but Microsoft will also push out an update that removes it from Win 10 devices altogether, redirecting users to Edge if they try to access the app. That’s bad news for the near 50% of businesses that still use the browser.
IE will live on through Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge until 2029, or January 2023 if you’re still on Windows 8.1 or Windows 7’s Extended Security Updates.
