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In 2012, Internet Explorer 10 was launched and included with Windows 8. This version dropped support for Windows XP.

This version dramatically improved web support, added features(like website pinning) and changed the look to a more cleaner feel. In 2011, Internet Explorer 9 was launched, which was the first browser since Internet Explorer 2 not to be bundled with any OS. Soon after, in 2009, Internet Explorer 8 was launched, which improved upon IE7's features and added features like Accelerators. In 2008, the popular Google Chrome browser was introduced, which also quickly ate up a lot of Internet Explorer's share. This version was included in Windows Vista and was available for Windows XP SP2. In 2006, Internet Explorer 7 was launched, which changed the look of the browser and introduced new features like tabbed browsing (which was already introduced in Firefox). Firefox quickly started to eat up Internet Explorer's share. In 2002, Firefox was introduced, and Safari came soon after. As IE6 was included with Windows XP, and was available for a wide ranges of Windows OS's, that browser quickly became the popular browser (90%). Consequently, IE6 did add many new features, but did not improve on the web standards. Especially, with the help of IE3 and IE4, Microsoft threw out Netscape and became the dominating force in the web browser race. In it's early days, Internet Explorer played an important role in creating and establishing web standards. Internet Explorer 4 was launched in 1998 and bundled with Windows 98 Internet Explorer 2 was launched soon after. Internet Explorer was launched in 1996 for Windows 95, with a pack.