It could be called a battle between Big Brother and Bill Gates. A single change in Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer has sparked a complex behind-the-scenes battle over your privacy.

Rest in Peace, Internet Explorer. Today, Microsoft is retiring its legacy browser and cutting off support for versions of the Windows 10 operating system, ending a 27-year run of one of the very first ...

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Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and ...