Internet Explorer 5
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Internet Explorer 5 in Windows 98
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Initial release | March 18, 1999 |
| Stable release |
5.5 Service Pack 2 (5.50.4807.2300) / July 23, 2001
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| Included with | Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 and Windows ME |
| Engine | Trident |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | web |
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Internet Explorer desktop market share
— January 2017 via Net Applications |
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| Internet Explorer 6 | 0.48% | |
| Internet Explorer 7 | 0.23% | |
| Internet Explorer 8 | 3.21% | |
| Internet Explorer 9 | 4.28% | |
| Internet Explorer 10 | 0.84% | |
| Internet Explorer 11 | 10.46% | |
| All variants | 19.5% | |
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Microsoft Edge excluded from the list. |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (IE5) is a discontinued graphical web browser and one of the main participants of the first browser war. Its distribution methods and Windows integration were involved in United States v. Microsoft. It is included with Windows 98 SE and Windows ME and it is the last version of Internet Explorer for Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.x and Windows 95. Although Internet Explorer 5 ran only on Windows, its siblings Internet Explorer for Mac 5 and Internet Explorer for UNIX 5 supported Mac OS X, Solaris and HP-UX.
IE5 presided over a large market share increase over Netscape Navigator between 1999 and 2001, and offered many advanced features for its day. In addition, it was compatible with the largest range of OSes of all the IE versions. However, support for many OSes quickly dropped off with later patches, and Windows XP and later Windows versions are not supported, because of inclusion of later IE. The 1999 review in PC World noted, "Credit the never-ending game of browser one-upsmanship that Netscape and Microsoft play. The new IE 5 trumps Netscape Communicator with smarter searching and accelerated browsing."
IE5 attained over 50% market share by early 2000, taking the lead over other browser versions including IE4 and Netscape. 5.x versions attained over 80% market share by the release of IE6 in August 2001. 5.0x and 5.5 were surpassed by Internet Explorer 6.0, dropping it to the second most popular browser, with market share dropping to 34 percent by mid-2003. In addition, by early 2005 Firefox 1.0 had overtaken it in market share. Version 5.x market share fell below 1% by the end of 2006.
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