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None of the given sources appear to mention when the Internet Jumpstart Kit was made available; in particular it was something after August 16, 1995 TEDickey (talk) 15:52, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[]

IE 1 was released in Aug. 1994 - a full year before Windows 95 was released. It was included as a free-insert paper CD in PC Magazine. I installed it on an 80386 PC running Windows 3.1. 2603:6081:1503:CE00:39EC:A562:6F13:1D9B (talk) 21:54, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[]

See reliable sources guideline, if you want to look for a suitable source TEDickey (talk) 00:02, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[]

The current interest overlook the tie-in to Internet Jumpstart Kit; previously I was able to find enough clues to persuade me that August 16, 1995 was a plausible date for that. However, what I find now may have been tainted by copying from Wikipedia, since it is not old enough, e.g., this and this. A plausible date would have to be earlier than this edit in 2009, which added the "16". The editor] is still active, asking for a reliable source would be the way to resolve that detail TEDickey (talk) 20:51, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[]

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Internet Explorer isn't available for regular users anymore as of February 2023, it has been redirected to Edge and the icons for Internet Explorer are to be removed in the June 2023 Windows 10 update. This leaves the small minority of LTSC and IE mode users which isn't normal usage. Also Cloudflare reports that most "Internet Explorer" traffic is bots with an IE user agent. Nearly all websites don't support Internet Explorer any more, either outright rejecting it or providing a broken page. With all this in mind Internet Explorer market share reports are completely unreliable and should be removed as there is virtually no actual use. 195.188.176.215 (talk) 09:24, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[]

Internet Explorer is used by 0.21 % as of May 2023, per https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share 2A02:2378:11A4:5D06:0:0:0:1 (talk) 14:00, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[]

Those numbers are inaccurate, 0.21% is low enough to be considered a rounding error at this point, and the fact that most of it is bot traffic and misconfigured outdated computers who haven't been redirected to Edge yet means it is a complete illusion of Internet Explorer actually being used by real people. Basically no one is using Internet Explorer as their main browser anymore due to the fact that the vast majority of sites don't work anymore. It is highly misleading to suggest that Internet Explorer has any place on the main internet at all, even specialist web applications are being migrated to Chromium based solutions. Microsoft is already aggressively updating old computers using "Microsoft Update Health Tools" and even Microsoft's own site doesn't properly work in IE anymore. Overall the figures should be removed. 2A00:23C6:4587:4F01:8D64:DF6C:1469:19C6 (talk) 13:58, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[]

I think they should be restored, as IE is still supported on some Windows versions (Windows Server, Windows Embedded and Windows IoT). 2A02:2378:103E:D94F:0:0:0:1 (talk) 15:59, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[]

Use on embedded systems tends to be on private kiosks and intranets, which don't get recorded as general use, also web browsing is rarely done on servers as ssh and remote administration tools are used instead. Intranet web apps also don't tend to have external analytics like Statcounter either, which makes IE's true usage too difficult to meaningly estimate anymore. Ponyguy (talk) 15:46, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[]