Well, that's that

Official today: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/internet-explorer-11-desktop-app-retirement-faq/ba-p/2366549

Internet Explorer is retired. Not that I care, necessarily. I was only a brief and reluctant user of this browser. But watching the Browser Wars happen in realtime when I was younger, and the Internet itself was very young was a fascinating thing to see. I was a Netscape user for as long as I could be, and like I said, only reluctantly used Internet Explorer when work computers mandated that I do. I adopted Chromium as soon as it was available (or at least as soon as I was aware of it) but always preferred browsers that focused more on privacy, like Comodo, SRWare Iron and more recently Brave, which is my default on both PCs and Android. 

Still; as one Browser War comes to its conclusive and final (albeit quiet) end, it's the end of an era. I wish I could feel vindicated in avoiding IE all of this time, only to focus on a Browser built by Brendon Eich who was a co-founder of Mozilla and who worked before that on the Netscape Browser, and who invented Javascipt.  But, that would be lying if I pretended to be prescient to that degree; it's just serendipitous that my preferred browser now is made by the same people who made my preferred browser during the original browser wars.