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The long goodbye to Internet Explorer

By Keith Collins
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Microsoft is dropping support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 as of Jan. 12, 2016. Its official announcement of the decision can be found here. (Note that Microsoft will continue to support Internet Explorer 9 for users of Windows Vista.)

The data used in this story are from W3Counter, which gathers stats from more than 37,000 websites that use its free services. Browser data varies among different sources, depending on the websites they track.

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