A closer look
Internet Explorer famously dominated the early web browsing market, but its ultimate, lasting legacy in the tech world is simply serving as the default tool you use once to download Google Chrome; Microsoft spent years pouring millions of dollars into developing and heavily bundling the browser with Windows, only for users to immediately open it, search for a competitor's product, and then banish the blue icon to the desktop recycle bin forever, despite it managing to stick around long enough to single-handedly ruin the lives of millions of web developers who had to write specialized code just to make websites function on its archaic engine, which is why its final death in 2022 was met not with sorrow, but with the collective sigh of relief from IT professionals globally
