Why is Internet Explorer still around, what kind of applications or businesses still use it?

Question

Pretty much the title

In: Technology

Answer 1

Nobody mentioned this yet but IE has (or had) a thing called ActiveX objects. This was a way for IE to do things that are now deemed insecure but also had ways of manipulating files on PC’s and reading certain things on drives. Using JavaScript you could run a script that read files locally on a C drive and that was a quick way for it guys to prototype more complex apps than what was possible at the time. Certain apps relied on this and probably still do, as it’s never had the budget or time to change.