Following its recent settlement with AOL, Microsoft has let slip that it will stop making Internet Explorer as a standalone product. But what does this mean for users?
Purveyors and consumers of Web content and software, already unsettled by the pact between archrivals Microsoft and AOL, may be in store for an even more radical upset: the end of Microsoft's standalone Internet Explorer browser.
Brian Countryman, IE program manager, said that the software maker is phasing out standalone versions of its Web browser.
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