Microsoft might have introduced a whole new web browser, Edge, for Windows 10 – but it turns out that we still haven’t seen an end to Internet Explorer and its long history of security fixes.
Internet Explorer 11, which was released in 2013 and comes installed on Windows 10, is one of four releases of the previously dominantly used web browser – the others being versions 7, 8, 9 and 10 – to have just been issued a patch for what Microsoft calls “critical” security shortcomings.
Each of these versions of IE were vulnerable to attackers who could execute remote code on an unsuspecting victim’s computer by leading them to load a “specially crafted webpage”, as Microsoft terms it, using Internet Explorer.
The new patch can easily be installed through Windows Update, and seems suitable even for people – and there are undoubtedly many – who no longer regularly use IE. Rest assured, however, that Edge does not share these security flaws and so does not itself require a fix.