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Internet Explorer 11 tren Windows 10
Tac gia goc	Thomas Reardon
Nha phat trien	Microsoft
Phat hanh lan dau	16 thang 8 nam 1995; 30 nam truoc (1995-08-16)
Phien ban on dinh	Windows: Ban mau:11.55.17763.0; 2 thang truoc Mac: 5.2.3 (16 thang 6 nam 2003; 22 nam truoc (2003-06-16)) [+-] Unix: 5.01 SP1 (2001; 25 nam truoc (2001)) [+-]
Viet bang	C++[1]
Engines	Trident, Chakra
He dieu hanh	Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris OS, HP-UX
Nen tang	IA-32, x64, ARMv7, IA-64, PowerPC, 68k, SPARC, PA-RISC
Di kem voi	Windows 95 OSR1 va cac ban sau Windows NT 4 va cac ban sau Mac OS 8.1 qua Mac OS X 10.2 Xbox 360 Xbox One
Tieu chuan	HTML5, CSS3, WOFF, SVG, RSS, Atom, JPEG XR
Co hieu luc trong	95 ngon ngu[2]
The loai	Trinh duyet web Feed reader
Giay phep	Doc quyen, can mot giay phep Windows[3]
Website	microsoft.com/ie

Internet Explorer (truoc day la Microsoft Internet Explorer; viet tat la IE), la mot dong trinh duyet web giao dien do hoa da ngung phat trien do Microsoft phat trien va la mot thanh phan cua cac he dieu hanh Microsoft Windows ke tu nam 1995. Day la trinh duyet web co nhieu nguoi su dung nhat tu nam 1999, dat toi dinh cao la khoang 95% thi phan trong nam 2002 va 2003 voi IE5 va IE6. Ke tu do thi phan cua trinh duyet nay da tu tu giam xuong voi su canh tranh doi moi tu cac trinh duyet web khac, voi Mozilla Firefox la doi thu dang ke. Microsoft da chi hon 100 trieu do la My moi nam vao IE^[4] vao cuoi thap nien 1990, voi hon 1000 nguoi tham gia phat trien vao nam 1999.^[5]

Phien ban phat hanh moi nhat la Internet Explorer 11, la mot phan cua he dieu hanh Windows 8.1 va Windows Sever 2012 co tu thang 10 nam 2013. Hien nay cung co mot phien ban mien phi cho he dieu hanh Windows 7 Service Pack 1, phien ban nay phat hanh vao thang 11 nam 2013.

Tu ngay 12 thang 1 nam 2016, Microsoft chi ho tro Internet Explorer 9 tren Windows Vista va Windows Server 2008. Internet Explorer 10 chi duoc ho tro tren Windows Server 2012.^[6] Voi Windows 10, Internet Explorer 11 tuy duoc thay the bang Microsoft Edge nhung van duoc cai dat san.

Tu ngay 15 thang 6 nam 2022, Microsoft da chinh thuc ngung ho tro hoan toan trinh duyet tren Windows 10, cong ty hien khuyen nghi nguoi dung chuyen tu Internet Explorer sang Microsoft Edge cang som cang tot thay vi de trinh duyet nay chuyen sang che do "ngoai tuyen" sau ngay 15/7. Trong qua trinh chuyen doi, nguoi dung co the chuyen truc tiep mat khau da luu, muc yeu thich va hon the nua sang trinh duyet moi.

Trinh duyet se bi vo hieu hoa tren tat ca cac phien ban danh cho nguoi tieu dung hien tai cua Windows 10 (20H2 tro len) va Windows 10 IoT (20H2 tro len). Trong Windows 11, ung dung IE 11 khong con co san va trinh duyet mac dinh cho Windows 11 la Microsoft Edge.

Nham giup nguoi dung thuan tien hon trong qua trinh su dung trinh duyet moi, Microsoft da trang bi cho trinh duyet Edge cua minh che do IE, va tinh nang nay se duoc ho tro den tan nam 2029. Dieu nay se cho phep cac nha phat trien web co them 8 nam de nang cap cac ung dung cu.

Cung theo Microsoft, IE se dan duoc thay the bang Microsoft Edge trong nhung thang toi sau khi cong ty ket thuc ho tro vao ngay 15/6 truoc khi vo hieu hoa vinh vien trinh duyet nay tren Windows. Cung can luu y rang nguoi dung khong nen go cai dat hoan toan IE khoi he thong cua minh vi IE 11 la yeu cau bat buoc de che do IE hoat dong tren Microsoft Edge.

Internet Explorer duoc phat hanh lan dau tien voi vai tro la mot goi bo sung Plus! for Windows 95 vao nam 1995. Cac phien ban sau do cho phep tai ve mien phi, hoac nam trong cac ban service pack, va kem trong cac ban phat hanh dich vu OEM cua Windows 95 va cac phien ban Windows sau do.

Cac phien ban khac co mat tu cuoi thap nien 1990 bao gom mot phien ban OEM nhung co ten goi Internet Explorer for Windows CE (IE CE) co trong cac nen tang tren WinCE va hien dua tren IE6. Internet Explorer danh cho Pocket PC, sau do duoc doi ten thanh Internet Explorer Mobile danh cho Windows Mobile cung da duoc phat trien, va van tiep tuc phat trien cung voi cac phien ban danh cho may tinh de ban voi nhieu chuc nang hon.

Du an Internet Explorer duoc bat dau vao mua he nam 1994 boi Thomas Reardon va sau do do Benjamin Slivka lam truong nhom, lay y tuong ma nguon tu Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic, mot trinh duyet web thuong mai co mat tu som voi hinh thuc gan lien voi trinh duyet tien phong Mosaic cua NCSA. Vao cuoi nam 1994, Microsoft da xin duoc phep tu Spyglass Mosaic voi su ho tro chi phi hang quy cung voi mot so phan tram trong loi nhuan thu duoc tu cac san pham khong phai Windows cua Microsoft de doi lay phan mem. Mac du co ten tuong tu nhu Mosaic cua NCSA, Spyglass Mosaic dung khong nhieu ma nguon cua NCSA Mosaic.^[7]

Internet Explorer 1 ra mat vao thang 8 nam 1995. No la phien ban chinh sua cua Spyglass Mosaic ma Microsoft da co phep, giong nhu nhieu cong ty khac bat dau viec phat trien trinh duyet cho rieng minh, tu Spyglass Inc. No di kem voi Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 va ban phat hanh OEM cua Windows 95. Phien ban nay duoc cai dat thanh mot phan cua Internet Jumpstart Kit trong Plus!^[8]. Nhom Internet Explorer bat dau khoang sau nguoi trong giai doan phat trien dau tien.^[4][5] Internet Explorer 1.5 duoc phat hanh vai thang sau do danh cho Windows NT va bo sung tinh nang ho tro hien thi bang bieu co ban. Tuy nhien, voi viec dua kem mien phi no vao he dieu hanh, ho khong phai tra tien ban quyen cho Spyglass Inc., dan den kien cao lam tieu ton hang trieu do la My.^[9]

Internet Explorer 2 duoc phat hanh danh cho Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5, va NT 4.0 vao thang 11 nam 1995 (sau ban 2.0 beta vao thang 10). No ho tro SSL, cookie, VRML, RSA, va nhom tin Internet. Phien ban 2 cung la ban phat hanh dau tien danh cho Windows 3.1 va Macintosh System 7.0.1 (PPC hay 68k), mac du phien ban Mac khong duoc phat hanh cho den thang 1 nam 1996 danh cho PPC, va thang 4 danh cho 68k.^[10] Phien ban 2.1 danh cho Mac ra mat vao thang 8 nam 1996, mac du vao thoi diem do Windows da len den phien ban 3.0. Phien ban 2 duoc kem trong Windows 95 OSR 1 va Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 cua Microsoft vao dau nam 1996.^[11] Phan mem phat hanh voi 12 ngon ngu trong do co tieng Anh nhung no mo rong ra den 24, 20, va 9 lan luot cho cac phien ban danh cho Win 95, Win 3.1 va Mac vao thang 4 nam 1996.^[12] Ban 2.0i ho tro bo ky tu byte kep.

Internet Explorer 3, phat hanh vao thang 8 nam 1996, va tiep tuc noi tieng hon nguoi tien nhiem. No duoc phat trien ma khong dung ma nguon Spyglass, mac du van ghi cong cho "cong nghe" Spyglass trong tai lieu cua chuong trinh. Internet Explorer 3 la trinh duyet lon dau tien co ho tro CSS, mac du con han che. Duoc phat hanh vao ngay 13 thang 8 nam 1996, no cung cho ra mat tinh nang ho tro ActiveX controls, Java applet, da phuong tien nhung, va he thong PICS danh cho noi dung sieu du lieu (metadata). Phien ban 3 cung duoc dong goi chung voi Internet Mail and News, NetMeeting, va phien ban dau tien cua Windows Address Book, va no cung kem trong Windows 95 OSR 2. Phien ban 3 da chung to minh la phien ban noi tieng hon cua Internet Explorer, nho su cham chut ky luong cho no. Trong nhieu thang sau khi ra mat, mot so lo hong bao mat va rieng tu duoc cac nha nghien cuu va hacker tim thay. Phien ban nay cua Internet Explorer la phien ban dau tien co logo "chu e mau xanh".^[8] Nhom Internet Explorer bao gom 100 nguoi trong suot qua trinh 3 thang phat trien.^[4] Lo hong bao mat IE lon dau tien, Princeton Word Macro Virus Loophole, duoc kham pha vao ngay 22 thang 8 nam 1996 trong IE3.^[14] Tinh nang tuong thich nguoc xu ly bang cach cho phep nhung nguoi nao nang cap len IE3 van co the su dung IE truoc do, vi qua trinh cai dat da chuyen phien ban truoc vao thu muc rieng re.^[15]

Internet Explorer 4, phat hanh vao thang 9 nam 1997 dao sau hon muc do tich hop giua trinh duyet web va he dieu hanh phia duoi. Viec cai dat phien ban 4 tren may Windows 95 va Windows NT 4 va chon Windows Desktop Update co the dan den viec Windows Explorer truyen thong bi thay bang mot phien ban trong giao dien nhu trinh duyet web, cung nhu man hinh nen Windows cung tro thanh web duoc thong qua Active Desktop. Tuy nhien, su tich hop voi Windows la chu de cua rat nhieu nhung chi trich ve dong goi (xem Hoa Ky kien Microsoft). Tuy chon nay khong con ton tai voi cac ban cai dat danh cho cac phien ban sau cua Internet Explorer nhung van khong bo ra khoi he thong duoc neu da cai dat roi. Internet Explorer 4 ra mat su ho tro Group Policy, cho phep cac cong ty cau hinh va khoa nhieu chuc nang cau hinh cua trinh duyet. Internet Mail and News duoc thay bang Outlook Express, va Microsoft Chat va mot phien ban NetMeeting cai tien cung duoc dinh kem. Phien ban nay cung kem trong Windows 98. Cac tinh nang moi duoc them vao cho phep nguoi dung luu va truy xuat cac noi dung dang trong cac mau binh luan ma den nay van khong duoc su dung. Internet Explorer 4.5 co them cac tinh nang moi nhu ma hoa 128-bit de dang hon. No cung co su phat trien vuot bac ve do on dinh so voi cac phien ban truoc, dac biet la phien ban 68k hoan toan khong bi treo.^[16][17][18]

Internet Explorer 5, phat hanh vao ngay 18 thang 3 nam 1999, va sau do duoc kem trong Windows 98 Second Edition va dong goi chung voi Office 2000, la mot phien ban noi bat khac co ho tro van ban hai huong, ky tu ruby, XML, XSLT va kha nang luu trang web duoi dinh dang MHTML. IE5 duoc dong goi voi Outlook Express 5. Ngoai ra, voi viec phat hanh Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft cung phat hanh phien ban XMLHttpRequest dau tien, khai sinh ra Ajax (mac du thuat ngu "Ajax" van khong xuat hien cho den vai nam sau). No la phien ban cuoi cung o dang 16-bit. Internet Explorer 5.01, mot phien ban sua loi, duoc phat hanh vao thang 12 nam 1999. Windows 2000 co phien ban nay. Internet Explorer 5.5 tiep noi vao thang 7 nam 2000, tang cuong kha nang xem thu truoc khi in, ho tro chuan CSS va HTML, va API cho lap trinh vien; phien ban nay di cung voi Windows Me. Phien ban 5.5 cung ho tro ma hoa 128-bit. Tuy nhien, phien ban 5 la phien ban cuoi cung danh cho Mac va UNIX. Phien ban 5.5 la phien ban cuoi cung co Che do Tuong thich, cho phep Internet Explorer 4^[19] co the chay song song voi 5.x.^[8][20] Nhom IE luc nao da len den hon 1000 nguoi vao nam 1999, tieu ton 100 trieu USD moi nam.^[4][5]

Thi phan vao thang 2 nam 2005 [21]
IE4 - 0.07%
IE5 - 6,17%
IE6 - 82,79%

Internet Explorer 6 phat hanh vao ngay 27 thang 8 nam 2001, mot vai thang truoc khi Windows XP ra mat. Phien ban nay bao gom cai tien DHTML, cac khung chua noi dung, va ho tro mot phan CSS cap 1, DOM cap 1 va SMIL 2.0.^[22] Bo may MSXML cung duoc cap nhat len phien ban 3.0. Cac tinh nang moi khac bao gom mot phien ban moi cua Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK), thanh Trinh dien, tich hop Windows Messenger, thu thap loi, tu thay doi kich thuoc hinh anh, P3P, va trai nghiem giao dien moi giong nhu phong cach hinh anh Luna cua Windows XP, khi dung trong Windows XP. Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 co them nhung cai tien bao mat va phat hanh cung luc voi phien ban va XP SP1. Vao nam 2002, giao thuc Gopher da bi tat va khong con duoc ho tro trong Internet Explorer 7.^[23] Internet Explorer 6.0 SV1^[24] phat hanh vao ngay 6 thang 8 nam 2004 danh cho Windows XP SP2 va dua nhieu cai tien bao mat va cac nut co mau moi tren giao dien. IE6 da cap nhat bieu trung "chu e mau xanh" sang mau xanh nhat hon va co hinh dang 3 chieu hon.^[8]

Internet Explorer 7 phat hanh vao ngay 18 thang 10 nam 2006. No gom cac sua loi, cai tien ho tro cac tieu chuan web, duyet theo the voi tinh nang xem truoc va quan ly the, mot hop tim kiem tich hop nhieu bo may, bo doc mau tin mang, ho tro Ten mien quoc te hoa (IDN), va bo loc chong lua dao. Voi IE7, Internet Explorer da duoc tach ra khoi Windows Shell - khong nhu cac phien ban khac, Internet Explorer ActiveX control khong con dat tren tien trinh cua Windows Explorer, ma chay tren mot tinh trinh Internet Explorer rieng biet. No duoc kem trong Windows Vista va Windows Server 2008, va co the tai ve cho Windows XP Service Pack 2 tro ve sau, va Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 tro ve sau. Ban phat hanh nguyen thuy cua Internet Explorer 7 doi hoi may tinh phai vuot qua quy trinh kiem tra Windows Genuine Advantage truoc khi cai dat, nhung vao ngay 5 thang 10 nam 2007, Microsoft da bo yeu cau nay. Theo nhu mot so thong ke cho thay, den giua nam 2008, Internet Explorer 7 da vuot qua Internet Explorer 6 ve so nguoi su dung.^[25]

Internet Explorer 8 phat hanh vao ngay 19 thang 3 nam 2009. No da duoc phat trien tre nhat la tu thang 8 nam 2007.^[26] Vao ngay 5 thang 3 nam 2008, ban beta cong cong dau tien (Beta 1) duoc phat hanh cho cong chung.^[27] Vao ngay 27 thang 8 nam 2008, ban beta cong cong thu hai (Beta 2) duoc phat hanh.^[28] No ho tro Windows XP SP2 va SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista va Windows Server 2008 tren ca kien truc 32-bit lan 64-bit.^[29] Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) RC1 duoc phat hanh vao ngay 26 thang 1 nam 2009. Bao mat, de dung, va nhung cai tien ve RSS, CSS, va ho tro Ajax la nhung uu tien cua Microsoft danh cho IE8.^[30][31] No tuong thich chat hon voi cac tieu chuan web, gom co tuong thich day du voi Cascading Style Sheets 2.1.^[32] Tat ca cac thay doi nay cho phep Internet Explorer 8 vuot qua kiem tra Acid2.^[33] Tuy nhien, de ngan ngua cac van de ve tuong thich, IE8 cung kem ca kha nang hien thi kieu IE7. Cac trang khong muon chuyen doi giao dien theo IE8 co the tat su thay doi nay bang cach them mot the vao phan HEAD cua trang web. IE8 cung kem them nhieu cai tien doi voi JavaScript cung nhu tang cuong hieu nang, mac du no van chua vuot qua duoc kiem tra Acid3, voi phien ban 8.0 RC1 ghi duoc 20/100 diem. No bao gom su ho tro Accelerators - cho phep ho tro ung dung web duoc kich hoat ma khong can goi tuong minh - va WebSlices - cho phep cac thanh phan trang duoc dang ky va theo doi tu mot Favorites Bar co san. Cac tinh nang khac gom co tinh nang duyet rieng tuInPrivate, va bo loc lua dao SmartScreen ^[34].
Internet Explorer 9 (viet tat IE9) duoc phat hanh chinh thuc vao ngay 14 thang 3 nam 2011. Internet Explorer 9 ho tro mot vai dac diem CSS 3, ho tro nhung ICC v2 hoac ho tro cau hinh mau v4 thong qua Windows Color System, dong thoi da cai thien hieu nang JavaScript. No cung co tinh nang tang toc qua trinh ket xuat do hoa bang cach su dung Direct2D, tang toc ket xuat van ban nho su dung DirectWrite, tang toc ket xuat video thong qua Media Foundation, ho tro hinh anh duoc cung cap boi Windows Imaging Component, va kha nang in an do trung thuc cao ho tro boi dinh dang van ban XPS. IE9 cung ho tro thanh phan HTML5 video, danh dau audio va dinh dang font cho cac trang web (Web Open Font Format). Microsoft da phat hanh IE9 nhu la mot phien ban rieng (out-of-band) ma no khong gan lien voi lich su phat hanh cua cac phien ban he dieu hanh Windows dac biet nhu truoc day.

He dieu hanh yeu cau cua IE9 la Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 hay Windows Server 2008 SP2 voi phien ban update. IE9 khong hoat dong tren Windows XP duoc. IE9 cung duoc xay dung cho ca hai nen tang 32-bit va 64-bit.

Internet Explorer 10 la phien ban chinh thu muoi cua Internet Explorer, duoc phat hanh vao ngay 26 thang 10 nam 2012 cho Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 va la trinh duyet web mac dinh cho Windows 8 va Windows Server

Internet Explorer da duoc thiet ke de xem duoc nhieu loai trang web khac nhau va cung cap mot so tinh nang nhat dinh cung voi he dieu hanh, trong do co Microsoft Update. Vao thoi hoang kim cua cuoc chien trinh duyet luc truoc, Internet Explorer da chien thang Netscape chi khi no bat kip voi cong nghe de ho tro nhung tinh nang tien tien luc bay gio.^[35]

Ho tro cac tieu chuan

Internet Explorer, dung bo may trinh bay Trident:

• ho tro day du HTML 4.01, CSS Cap 1, XML 1.0 va DOM Cap 1, voi mot it khac biet hien thuc.
• ho tro day du XSLT 1.0 cung nhu mot bien the cua XSLT do Microsoft dua ra (nay da khong con ton tai) co ten WD-xsl, dua mot phan tren Ban nhap XSL cua W3C vao thang 12 nam 1998. Ho tro XSLT 2.0 tuy vao tuong lai.
• ho tro mot phan CSS Cap 2 va DOM Cap 2, voi khoang cach hien thuc lon va cac van de tuong thich lon. Tuong thich hoan toan voi CSS 2.1 da co trong ban Internet Explorer 8.^[36]
• khong ho tro XHTML
• khong ho tro SVG, ca ban 7.0 lan 8.0^[37]

Internet Explorer su dung DOCTYPE sniffing de lua chon giua "che do thoai thac" (hien thi tuong tu nhu cac phien ban MSIE cu hon) va che do tieu chuan (hien thi gan voi tai lieu W3C) doi voi viec hien thi HTML va CSS tren man hinh (Internet Explorer luon dung che do chuan khi in an). No cung cung cap mot bien the cua ECMAScript co ten JScript.

Internet Explorer da la chu de chi trich vi su ho tro han che doi voi cac tieu chuan web mo.^[37]

Bo mo rong cho cac tieu chuan

Internet Explorer da gioi thieu mot loat cac phan mo rong thuong mai vao nhieu tieu chuan, trong do co HTML, CSS va DOM. Dieu nay dan den mot so trang web chi co the xem dung neu dung Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer cung gioi thieu mot so phan mo rong cho JScript va da duoc cac trinh duyet khac dua vao. Trong so cac phan mo rong co thuoc tinh innerHTML, se tra ve chuoi HTML trong mot thanh to (element); doi tuong XMLHttpRequest, cho phep gui yeu cau HTTP va nhan ve hoi dap HTTP; va thuoc tinh designMode cua doi tuong contentDocument, cho phep soan thao nhieu chuc nang doi voi van ban HTML. Mot so cac chuc nang nay khong the hoat dong duoc cho den khi cac phuong thuc W3C DOM ra mat. Bo mo rong ky tu Ruby cua no vao HTML cung duoc chap nhan lam mot module trong W3C XHTML 1.1, mac du khong tim thay no trong tat ca cac phien ban cua W3C HTML.

Microsoft da de cu mot so tinh nang khac cua IE de W3C xem xet chuan hoa. Trong so nay co thuoc tinh CSS 'hanh vi', ket noi cac thanh to HTML voi cac hanh vi JScript (co ten HTML Components, HTC); ho so HTML+TIME, them ho tro dong bo hoa thoi gian va phuong tien vao van ban HTML (tuong tu nhu W3C XHTML+SMIL); va dinh dang tap tin do hoa vector VML. Tuy nhien, tat ca chung deu bi tu choi, it nhat la o dang nguyen ban. Tuy nhien, VML sau do da duoc phoi hop voi PGML (do Adobe va Sun de xuat), de co duoc dinh dang SVG ma W3C da chung nhan, hien la mot so it cac dinh dang hinh anh vector dang duoc su dung tren web, con IE lai rat doc dao khi van khong ho tro dinh dang nay.^[38]

Cac tieu chuan thuong mai khac bao gom, ho tro van ban doc, nhung trong mot cu phap khac voi loi khuyen ung vien W3C CSS3. Ho tro cac hieu ung hinh anh khac nhau^[39] va chuyen trang, khong co trong W3C CSS. Ho tro ma kich ban hoang mang (obfuscated), ma cu the la JScript.Encode().^[40] Ho tro cac phong chu EOT nhung trong trang web.^[41]

Favicon

Favicon (viet tat cho "favorites icon", bieu tuong ua thich) duoc Internet Explorer gioi thieu, hien nay cung da duoc ho tro va mo rong trong cac trinh duyet khac. No cho phep cac trang web chi dinh mot hinh anh rong 16x16 pixel trong muc danh dau trang. Nguyen thuy, no chi ho tro cho dinh dang ICO goc cua Windows, tuy nhien no da duoc mo rong cho cac loai hinh anh khac nhu PNG va GIF.

Tinh de dung va de tiep can

Internet Explorer tan dung nen tang de tiep can (accessibility) trong Windows. Internet Explorer cung la mot giao dien nguoi dung cho FTP, voi cac tac vu tuong tu nhu Windows Explorer (mac du tinh nang nay can phai dung cua so dong lenh de kich hoat trong cac phien ban gan day, chu khong nam han trong trinh duyet). Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) khong duoc ho tro, nhung van dung duoc thong qua bo mo rong (iMacros). Cac phien ban gan day co tinh nang chan pop-up va duyet theo the. Duyet theo the cung co the them vao cac phien ban cu neu cai MSN Search Toolbar cua Microsoft hay Yahoo Toolbar cua Yahoo.

Bo dem

Internet Explorer luu vao bo dem cac noi dung da vieng tham trong thu muc Temporary Internet Files de cho phep truy cap nhanh hon (hoac truy cap ngoai tuyen) vao cac trang da xem truoc do. Noi dung duoc danh chi muc trong mot tap tin co so du lieu, co ten Index.dat. Nhieu tap tin Index.dat khac nhau ton tai de danh chi cac noi dung khac nhau - noi dung da xem, ban tin web, muc tu dien, URL da xem, cookie, v.v.^[42]

Truoc IE7, xoa bo dem se xoa chi muc nhung ban than tap tin khong bi xoa. Tinh nang nay co the la nguy co bao mat cho ca ca nhan lan cong ty. Tu IE7 tro di, ca chi muc lan tap tin deu bi xoa khi tay bo dem.

Group Policy

Internet Explorer hoan toan co the cau hinh duoc bang cach dung Group Policy (chinh sach nhom). Nhung nguoi quan tri mien Windows Server co the ap dung va bat buoc mot so cac thiet lap co anh huong den giao dien nguoi dung (nhu tat cac muc tren trinh don va cac tuy chon cau hinh chho tung ca nhan), cung nhu cac tinh nang bao mat phia duoi nhu tai tap tin, cau hinh vung (zone), thiet lap theo tung trang, hanh vi ActiveX control, va nhieu thu khac. Cac thiet lap chinh sach co the duoc cau hinh cho moi nguoi dung va do moi may tinh. Internet Explorer cung ho tro Integrated Windows Authentication (Chung nhan Windows Tich hop).

Internet Explorer su dung kien truc phan ra thanh phan duoc xay dung xoay quanh cong nghe Mo hinh Doi tuong Thanh phan (Component Object Model - COM). No bao gom nam thanh phan chinh, moi thanh phan duoc chua trong mot thu vien .dll rieng re va dua ra mot tap cac interface COM cho phep duoc chua trong tap tin thuc thi chinh cua Internet Explorer, iexplore.exe:^[43]

WinInet.dll

WinInet.dll la bo xu ly giao thuc danh cho HTTP va FTP. No xu ly tat ca cac giao tiep mang thong qua cac giao thuc nay.

URLMon.dll

URLMon.dll chiu trach nhiem xu ly kieu MIME va viec tai ve cac noi dung web-type handling and download of web.

MSHTML.dll

MSHTML.dll giu bo may bieu dien Trident duoc gioi thieu tu Internet Explorer 4, chiu trach nhiem hien thi trang len man hinh va xu ly Mo hinh Doi tuong Tai lieu (DOM) cua trang web. MSHTML.dll se phan tich cac tap tin HTML/CSS va tao ra dang bieu dien cay DOM cho no. No cung dua ra mot tap cac API danh cho viec duyet va dieu chinh cay DOM trong khi dang chay. Cay DOM duoc bo may trinh bay xu ly ky hon roi sau do duoc bieu dien thanh cach trinh bay len man hinh.

IEFrame.dll

IEFrame.dll chua giao dien nguoi dung va cua so IE trong Internet Explorer 7 tro ve truoc.

ShDocVw.dll

ShDocVw.dll cung cap cac tac vu de duyet web, luu bo dem va lich su cho trinh duyet.

BrowseUI.dll

BrowseUI.dll chiu trach nhiem giao dien nguoi dung trinh duyet, bao gom chrome cua trinh duyet, tuc la tat ca cac trinh don va thanh cong cu.^[44]

Internet Explorer khong chua bat ky chuc nang tao kich ban nao ben trong no. Ma chinh MSHTML.dll se dua ra mot tap API khac de cho phep cac moi truong tao kich ban duoc nhung vao va truy xuat cay DOM. Internet Explorer 8 co gan san bo may Active Scripting (la mot phan cua Microsoft Windows), cho phep bat cu ngon ngu nao duoc hien thuc thanh mot module Active Scripting co the duoc dung de tao kich ban tu phia may khach. Mac dinh, chi co module JScript va VBScript la duoc cung cap; cac hien thuc tu ben thu ba nhu ScreamingMonkey (de ho tro ECMAScript 4) cung co the dung duoc. Microsoft cung dua ra trinh chay Microsoft Silverlight de cho phep ngon ngu CLI, bao gom cac ngon ngu dong dua tren DLR nhu IronPython va IronRuby, dung cho viec tao kich ban tu phia may khach.

Internet Explorer 8 gioi thieu mot vai thay doi lon, co ten la Loosely Coupled IE (LCIE). LCIE tach cac tien trinh giao dien ra khoi tien trinh chua cac ung dung web khac nhau tai cac the khac nhau (tien trinh the). Mot tien trinh giao dien co the tao ra nhieu tien trinh the, moi tien trinh the co the co do tich hop khac nhau; moi tien trinh the co the chua nhieu website va co bo dem cookie cua rieng no. Hai tien trinh su dung Lien lac Lien Tien trinh (Inter-Process Communication) bat dong bo de tu dong bo chung. Noi chung, se co mot tien trinh the danh cho tat ca cac web site. Tuy nhien, trong Windows Vista neu bat che do bao ve, noi dung uu tien dang duoc mo (nhu cac trang HTML trong may) se tao ra mot tien trinh the moi vi no khong bi rang buoc boi che do bao ve.^[45]

Internet Explorer dua ra mot tap cac interface Mo hinh Doi tuong Thanh phan (Component Object Model - COM) cho phep cac thanh phan khac mo rong chuc nang cua trinh duyet.^[43] Kha nang mo rong nay duoc chia lam hai loai: Mo rong trinh duyet va Mo rong noi dung. Cac interface mo rong trinh duyet co the dung de nhung cac thanh phan dung de them cac muc trinh don, thanh cong cu, muc trong mot trinh don hay Doi tuong Tro giup Trinh duyet (Browser Helper Objects - BHO). Cac BHO duoc dung de mo rong bo tinh nang cua trinh duyet, trong khi cac tuy chon mo rong khac dung de dua tinh nang do ra giao dien. Cac interface mo rong noi dung duoc cac bo xu ly kieu noi dung khac nhau su dung de them ho tro cho cac dinh dang noi dung khong co san.^[43] Cac BHO khong chi duoc truy cap khong gioi han vao DOM va mo hinh su kien cua Internet Explorer, ma chung con co the truy cap he thong tap tin, registry va cac thanh phan he dieu hanh khac. Kha nang mo rong noi dung co the duoc goi la Active Documents (Doc Objects) (vi du, SVG hay MathML) hoac ActiveX controls.^[43] Cac ActiveX control duoc danh cho cac bo xu ly noi dung trinh bay noi dung duoc nhung trong trang HTML (nhu Adobe Flash hay Microsoft Silverlight). Cac doi tuong Doc duoc dung khi kieu noi dung khong duoc nhung trong HTML (nhu Microsoft Word, PDF hay XPS). Tren thuc te, ban than bo may bieu dien Trident cung la mot doi tuong Doc, do do HTML tu no cung duoc xem la mot Active Document.^[43]

Cac thanh phan bo tro (add-on) Interner Explorer chay voi cung muc uu tien voi trinh duyet, khong giong nhu cac doan ma kich ban phia may khach co it quyen uu tien hon. Thanh phan bo tro co the duoc cai dat tu may, hoac truc tiep tu website. Vi cac thanh phan bo tro co muc truy cap den he thong cao hon, cac trinh bo tro ac y co the va da duoc dung de xam nhap vao su bao mat cua he thong. Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 2 tro ve sau da cung cap cac cong cu bao ve khoi nhung thu nay, bao gom mot Trinh quan ly Add-on Manager dung de quan ly cac ActiveX control va Doi tuong Tro giup Trinh duyet va mot che do van hanh "Khong co trinh bo sung" cung nhu han che hon doi voi viec cai dat add-on tu website.

Ban than Internet Explorer co the duoc cac trinh ung dung khac luu tru thong qua mot tap cac interface COM. No co the dung de nhung cac chuc nang trinh duyet vao ben trong mot ung dung. Tuong tu, ung dung luu tru co the chon chi chua bo may bieu dien MSHTML.dll chu khong can phai chua toan bo trinh duyet.^[43]

Internet su dung nen tang bao mat dua theo khu vuc, no se nhom cac site lai dua tren mot so dieu kien cu the, nhu no co phai la site tren Internet hay Intranet hoac co nam trong danh sach trang do nguoi dung ghi nhan hay khong. Cac han che bao mat duoc ap dung theo khu vuc; tat ca cac site trong mot khu vuc se tuan theo cung mot han che.

Internet Explorer 6 SP2 tro ve sau su dung Dich vu Thuc thi Dinh kem (Attachment Execution Service) cua Microsoft Windows de danh cac tap tin thuc thi duoc tai ve tu Internet co the khong an toan. Khi truy cap cac tap tin duoc danh dau nhu vay, trinh duyet se nhac nguoi dung phai co quyet dinh tin tuong truoc khi thuc thi, vi cac tap tin thuc thi xuat phat tu Internet co the co nhieu nguy co khong an toan. Cach lam nay giup ngan ngua viec cai dat phan mem doc hai mot cach vo y.

Internet Explorer 7 gioi thieu bo loc chong lua dao (phishing), han che truy cap den cac site phishing tru khi nguoi dung quyet dinh tiep tuc xem. Voi phien ban 8, trinh duyet con khoa truy cap vao trang site duoc biet la dang luu tru phan mem doc hai (malware). Viec tai ve cung duoc kiem tra de xem chung co tung duoc bao la nhiem phan mem doc hai hay khong.

Trong Windows Vista, Internet Explorer mac dinh chay trong che do co ten la Che do Bao ve (Protected Mode), trong do dac quyen cua chinh trinh duyet bi han che dang ke - no khong the thuc hien thay doi he thong. Nguoi dung co the tat che do nay nhung khong duoc khuyen khich. No cung han che hieu qua dac quyen cua cac trinh bo sung (add-on). Ket qua la tham chi neu trinh duyet hoac trinh bo sung nao bi khong che, nhung thiet hai bao mat van rat han che.

Cac ban va va ban cap nhat trinh duyet duoc phat hanh dinh ky va co the tai ve thong qua dich vu Microsoft Update, cung nhu thong qua Automatic Updates. Mac du cac ban va bao mat tiep tuc duoc phat hanh cho nhieu he dieu hanh, da so cac bo sung tinh nang hay cai tien nen tang bao mat chi co mat cho cac he dieu hanh dang trong giai doan ho tro chu yeu cua Microsoft.

Vao ngay 16 thang 12 nam 2008, Trend Micro khuyen cao nguoi dung chuyen sang cac trinh duyet doi thu cho den khi IE phat hanh ban va khan cap de sua mot nguy co bao mat co the cho phep nhung ke ben ngoai chiem quyen dieu khien may tinh va an cap mat khau cua ban. Nguoi dai dien cua Microsoft phan doi de nghi nay, cho rang chi co "0,02% nguoi dung Internet" bi anh huong boi loi nay. Vao ngay 17 thang 12 nam 2008, Microsoft phat hanh ban va van de bao mat nay trong ban Cap nhat Bao mat danh cho Internet Explorer KB960714.^[46][47]

Internet Explorer luon la chu de cua nhieu lo hong va lo ngai ve bao mat: Nhieu phan mem gian diep, phan mem quang cao, va virus may tinh tren Internet da khai thac cac loi va lo hong trong kien truc bao mat cua Internet Explorer, doi khi khong pha hoai truc tiep ngoai viec khien nguoi dung xem mot trang web doc hai nao do de tu cai chung vao may. Kieu pha hoai nay co ten "drive-by install". Cung co loai phan mem lua nguoi dung cai dat phan mem doc hai bang cach gioi thieu mot cach gia mao muc dich tot dep cua phan mem trong phan mieu ta cua mot canh bao bao mat ActiveX.

Mot so lo hong bao mat anh huong den IE khong phai xuat phat tu trinh duyet, ma tu cac trinh bo sung ActiveX ma IE su dung. Vi nhung trinh bo sung nay co cung dac quyen voi IE, nhung lo hong nay cung nguy hiem nhu lo hong tu trinh duyet. Do do kien truc dua tren ActiveX nay da bi chi trich rat nhieu. Gan day, nhieu chuyen gia khac van bao luu quan diem rang cac nguy hiem tu ActiveX da bi phong dai va van co nhung cach bao ve dung noi dung luc. Cac trinh duyet khac su dung NPAPI lam co che mo rong cung dang gap van de y het. Trong cot y kien trong to thang 4 nam 2005 cua eWeek, Larry Seltzer cho rang:

Trong khi da co nhung loi cao buoc thieu chung cu rang ActiveX thieu an toan, tiep tuc van khong it loi xac nhan thieu chung cu va tan cong re tien. Dieu toi ua thich la vu viec "Internet Explorer" trong do Sun thuc su tra tien cho nguoi khac de viet mot ActiveX control doc hai. He thong kiem thu dua ra tat ca cac hop thoai canh bao ve chuong trinh ma ban van thuong hay thay con cac nhan vien Sun thi thay kho chiu khi cu phai nhan phim enter that nhanh de ho co the dong hop thoai do cang nhanh cang tot ma khong de cap den cac canh bao. Trong khi do, ho cung khong de cap den viec mot Java applet da ky cung co the thuc hien cac hanh vi dac quyen nguy hiem va cung dua ra cung kieu canh bao nhu vay. Da so nhung nguoi chi trich ActiveX don gian la do khong hieu ro, nhung vi du nay that la dao duc gia va thieu chan that^[48]

.

Tuy Internet Explorer vao nam 2008 co so lo hong bao mat tuong tu voi Safari va Opera, va it hon dang ke cho voi doi thu canh tranh chinh, Mozilla Firefox, su pho bien cua no da dan den co nhieu nguoi bi anh huong hon khi co mot lo hong bi phat hien. Theo nghien cuu cua cong ty nghien cuu bao mat Secunia, Microsoft da khong hoi dap nhanh bang cac doi thu canh tranh trong viec sua cac lo hong bao mat va dua ra cac ban va.^[49] Cong ty nay cung bao cao rang co 366 lo hong tim thay trong cac ActiveX control, tang hon so voi nam truoc.

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Thi phan nguoi dung trinh duyet web tinh den thang 10 nam 2025. Nguon: Stat Counter ^[50]

Ty le su dung Internet Explorer duong nhu lien he chat che voi Microsoft Windows, vi no la trinh duyet web mac dinh cua Windows. Tu khi tich hop Internet Explorer 2.0 vao Windows 95 OSR mot trong nam 1996, va dac biet la sau khi phat hanh phien ban 4.0, ty le su dung tang len rat nhanh: tu duoi 20% vao nam 1996 len den 40% vao nam 1998 va tren 80% vao nam 2000.

Mot bai bao cua CNN da binh luan khi Internet Explorer 4 phat hanh: "Internet Explorer cua Microsoft da di dung duong va uoc tinh nang thi phan su dung trinh duyet len 30 den 35 phan tram so voi 10 phan tram vao nam truoc".^[51] Den nam 2002, Internet Explorer da hoan toan danh bai doi thu chinh Netscape va chiem linh den 95% thi phan.

Sau khi chien dau va gianh chien thang cuoc chien trinh duyet vao cuoi thap nien 1990, Internet Explorer hau nhu thong tri hoan toan thi truong trinh duyet. Dat den dinh 95% vao nam 2002 va 2003, thi phan cua no tu do giam deu dan. Ly do chinh la do viec su dung Mozilla Firefox, ma cac con so thong ke cho thay do la doi thu canh tranh dang chu y nhat hien nay. Tuy nhien, Internet Explorer van la trinh duyet web thong tri, voi thi phan toan cau la khoang 66% (con so co the thay doi). Ty le su dung co cao hon o chau A va thap hon o chau Au.

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Firefox 1.0 da vuot qua Internet Explorer 5 vao dau nam 2005 voi con so la xap xi 8% thi phan.^[52] Mot bai bao da ghi khi Internet Explorer 7 phat hanh vao thang 10 nam 2006 "IE6 co thi phan thong linh voi 77,22%. Internet Explorer 7 da leo den 3,18%, con Firefox 2.0 la 0.69%".^[53]

Internet Explorer 7 duoc phat hanh cung thoi gian voi Firefox 2.0, va vuot qua Firefox 1.x vao thang 11 nam 2006, voi khoang 9% thi phan.^[54] Firefox 2.0 vuot qua 1.x vao thang 1 nam 2007,^[55] nhung IE7 van khong qua mat duoc IE6 cho den thang 12 nam 2007.^[56] Den thang 1 nam 2008, thi phan tuong ung cua chung la 43% doi voi IE7, 32% cho IE6, 16% cho FF2, 4% cho Safari 3 va ca phien ban FF1.x va IE5 la it hon nua phan tram.^[57]

So nguoi dung xap xi qua thoi gian dua tren so lieu thi phan nguoi dung khac nhau trong ca nam, hoac dua tren tung quy, hoac trong thang cuoi cua nam tuy thuoc vao nguon tham khao.^{[58][59][60][61][62][63]}

Co che mo rong ActiveX duoc nhieu website va ung dung web cong cong su dung, trong do co eBay. Tuong tu, Doi tuong Tro giup Trinh duyet cung duoc nhieu cong ty cung cap bo may tim kiem va cac ben thu 3 su dung de tao ra cac trinh bo sung de truy cap vao dich vu cua ho, nhu thanh cong cu bo may tim kiem. Do viec su dung COM, hoan toan co the nhung chuc nang duyet web vao cac ung dung cua ben thu ba. Do do, hien co mot so Internet Explorer shell, va mot so ung dung huong noi dung nhu RealPlayer cung su dung module duyet web cua Internet Explorer de xem trang web ben trong ung dung.

Cac phien ban IE qua thoi gian co nhieu do tuong thich he dieu hanh khac nhau, tu viec co mat o nhieu nen tang he dieu hanh va vai phien ban Windows cho den chi mot so it phien ban Windows. Nhieu phien ban IE co ho tro cho he dieu hanh cu hon nhung dung cap nhat. Luong nguoi dung Internet tang vot vao thap nien 1990 va 2000 co nghia la cac trinh duyet hien nay co thi phan nho van co so luong nguoi dung lon hon toan bo thi phan khi xua. Vi du, 90% thi phan vao nam 1997 la khoang 60 trieu nguoi dung,^[64] nhung vao dau nam 2007 90% thi phan tuong duong voi 900 trieu nguoi dung. Ket qua la cac phien ban sau cua IE6 co tong cong nhieu nguoi dung hon tat ca cac phien ban truoc do gop lai.

Viec phat hanh IE7 vao cuoi nam 2006 da dan den su sup do ve thi phan cua IE6; den thang 2 nam 2007 cac con so thong ke thi phan phien ban cho thay IE6 dat khoang 50% va IE7 khoang 29%.^[65] Bat ke thi phan thuc su the nao, phien ban tuong thich tot nhat (qua nhieu he dieu hanh) cua IE la 5.x, co mat cho Mac OS 9 va Mac OS X, Unix, va hau het cac he dieu hanh Windows va duoc ho tro mot thoi gian ngan vao cuoi thap nien 1990 (mac du phien ban 4.x co nen tang ma nguon thong nhat hon qua cac phien ban). Den nam 2007, IE co muc ho tro he dieu hanh hep hon, voi phien ban moi nhat chi ho tro Windows XP Service Pack 2 tro len. Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, va 7.0 (thu nghiem) cung duoc chuyen khong chinh thuc sang he dieu hanh Linux tu du an "ies4linux".

	Nam	Layout engine	Microsoft Windows													IBM OS/2 tu 2.1	Apple Mac OS					Unix HP-UX Solaris
			7, WS 08 R2	Vista, WS 08	WS 03	XP	Me	2000	98	NT 4.0	95	NT 3.51	NT 3.5	NT 3.1	3.1x		X PPC	7.6 den 9.2.2 PPC	7.5.x PPC	7.1 den 8.1 68K 7.1.2 PPC	7.0.1 68K
Nam	-	-	2009	2007	2003	2001	2000	2000	1998	1996	1995	1995	1994	1993	1992	1993	2001	1997	1994	1992	1991	(1990s)
IE 9	2011	Trident 5.0[66]	Co	Co voi nang cap nen tang	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 8	2009	Trident 4.0[67]	Di kem	Co	Co voi SP2	Co voi SP2/3	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 7	2006	Trident	Khong	Di kem	Co voi SP1/2	Co voi SP2/3&	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 6	2001	Trident	Khong	Khong$	Di kem	Di kem	Co 6.0 SP1	Co 6.0 SP1	Co 6.0 SP1	Co 6.0 SP1	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 5.5	2000	Trident	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong***	Di kem	Co	Co	Co	Co 5.5 SP2	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 5.0	1999	Trident Win Tasman Mac	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong***	Khong	Di kem 5.01 SP4	Di kem voi 98SE	Co	Co	Co 16-bit	Khong	Khong	Co 16-bit	Khong	Di kem 5.2.3	Di kemY= 5.1.7 EUR	Khong	Khong	Khong	Co 5.01 SP1
IE 4.5	1999	-	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Di kemEUR	Co	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 4.0	1997	Trident	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong***	Khong	Khong	Di kem	Co	Di kem OSR2.5	Co 16-bit	Khong	Khong	Co 16-bit	Khong	Khong	Di kemEUR	Co	Co 4.01	Khong	Co
IE 3.0	1996	-	Khong	Khong***	Khong	Khong***	Khong	Khong***	Khong	Co	Di kem OSR2	Co 16-bit	Co 16-bit	Khong	Co 16-bit	Win. 16-bit	Khong	Di kemEUR	Co	Di kemEUR	Khong	Beta
IE 2.0	1995	-	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Di kem	Di kem OSR1	Co 16-bit	Co 16-bit	Co 16-bit	Co 16-bit	Win. 16-bit	Khong	Co	Co	CoPS	CoPS 2.0.1	Khong
IE 1.5	1996	Spyglass	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Co	Co	Co	Co	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong
IE 1.0	1995	Spyglass	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong tu do Plus!	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong	Khong

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^* Internet Explorer 6 SP2 chi co mat duoi dang thanh phan cua Windows XP SP2 hay Windows Server 2003 SP1 hay SP2.
^** Phien ban Internet Explorer kem trong Windows 95 khac nhau tuy theo lan phat hanh OSR; 2.0 kem trong OSR1, 3.0 kem trong OSR2, va 4.0 kem trong OSR2.5.
^*** Ban chat la khong ho tro, nhung dung duoc voi bo cai dat "Dung mot minh" cua ben thu ba.
^**** Phien ban cuoi cung cua Windows XP Service Pack 3 khong kem theo IE7.

Xem them Internet Explorer Mobile. Phien ban IE khong danh cho may tinh ban cung ho tro Windows CE.

Su pho bien cua Internet Explorer da khien phan mem doc hai lam dung ten cua no xuat hien. Vao ngay 28 thang 1 nam 2011, mot trinh duyet Internet Explorer gia mang ten la "Internet Explorer - Emergency Mode" da xuat hien. No gan giong voi Internet Explorer that, nhung co it nut hon va khong co thanh tim kiem. Neu nguoi dung co gang khoi chay bat ky trinh duyet nao khac nhu Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari hoac Internet Explorer that, trinh duyet nay se duoc tai thay the. No cung hien thi canh bao gia mao rang may tinh bi nhiem phan mem doc hai va Internet Explorer da vao "Che do khan cap". No ngan chan truy cap den cac trang web hop phap nhu Google neu co gang su dung de truy cap chung.^[70][71]

Cac phien ban dau cua Internet Explorer 5 nhu co che do tuong thich de chay Internet Explorer 4, mac du tinh nang nay da duoc bo (tuong tu nguoi dung Mac van dung duoc 4.5 sau khi cai dat 5). Trong khi Microsoft tuyen bo khong the giu nhieu phien ban Internet Explorer tren cung may tinh, mot so hacker da tach thanh cong cac phien ban cua Internet Explorer, khien cho chung tro thanh cac ung dung dung mot minh (standalone). Chung duoc goi la IE "dung mot minh" va co tu cac phien ban 3 cho den 8.

• Nhieu IE trong Thiet ke Web Windows -- nha phat trien web Joe Maddalone la nguoi tim ra giai phap nay.
• Hop cat Trinh duyet Xenocode -- chuong trinh ao hoa ung dung Xenocode

Microsoft khong con tiep tuc cung cac bo cai dat dung mot minh cua Internet Explorer danh cho cong chung. Tuy nhien, co mot so quy trinh khong chinh thuc de tai cac goi cai dat day du ve. Cac ban hack Internet Explorer dung mot minh thuc hien mot cac di vong qua DLL hell, duoc gioi thieu trong Windows 2000, co ten doi huong DLL.

• Bo IE. Mot trinh cai dat danh cho cac phien ban doc lap cua IE8.0, IE7.0, IE6.0, IE5.51, IE5.01, IE4.01, IE3.0, IE2.01, IE1.5, va IE1.0
• Tai lieu Ho tro Microsoft, voi cac huong dan tai ve toan bo cac tap tin cai dat.

Cung co the cai dat Internet Explorer thong qua Wine.

• IEs4Linux tu dong cai dat Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, va 6.0 trong Wine. Viec ho tro cho Internet Explorer 7 hien dang duoc phat trien; den thang 8 nam 2007, bo may hien thi IE7 co the dung voi giao dien IE6.^[72]

Sau khi cai dat Internet Explorer 7, van con mot tap tin thuc thi Internet Explorer 6 trong C:\WINDOWS\ie7, mac dinh la an. Chay tap tin nay se chuyen nguoi dung ve giao dien cu cua IE6, nhung cac trang web duoc hien thi dung bo may IE7. Bo may IE6 co the duoc tai kich hoat bang cach dat mot tap tin co ten "iexplore.exe.local" vao thu muc IE7.

Voi mot cach thay the cho viec su dung IE dung mot minh, Microsoft cho ra mat cac anh Microsoft Virtual PC co chua cac phien ban Windows XP kich hoat san voi IE6 hoac IE7 da duoc cai.^[73] Microsoft khuyen cao cach dung nay cho nhung nha phat trien web tim cach kiem thu trang web cua ho trong nhieu phien ban IE khac nhau vi cac phien ban dung mot minh khong duoc ho tro va co the khong hoat dong giong nhu ban sao da cai dat dung cua IE.^[74][75]

• Opera
• Safari
• Mozilla Firefox
• Danh sach trinh doc ban tin
• So sanh cac trinh doc ban tin
• So sanh cac trinh duyet web

• Website chinh cua Internet Explorer (tieng Anh)
• IEBlog - weblog cua nhom dang phat trien Internet Explorer (Anh)
• Channel9 Wiki: InternetExplorer - trang wiki cua Microsoft ve Internet Explorer (Anh)
• Cong dong Internet Explorer - cong dong chinh thuc su dung Microsoft Internet Explorer (Anh)

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