Internet Explorer for Mac: Download Windows Apps on MacOS Run Internet Explorer on Mac is easy. Scroll down and expand Media Features, clear the Windows Media Player check box, and click OK. If you want to reinstall Windows Media Player, try the following: Click the Start button, type features, and select Turn Windows features on or off. Internet Explorer was long known for disobeying set web standards by the W3C until version 9 when Microsoft took a new commitment to HTML5 and web standards. Being included in Windows since Windows 95 and beyond, it quickly overtook Netscape in the first Browser War and retained ~95% of market share until the early 2000's when popular alternative browsers such as Mozilla Firefox came to market sparking the 2nd browser war. This resulted in a lawsuit and a US$8 million settlement in January 1997.
As Microsoft decided to distribute Internet Explorer 'free of charge' with their Windows operating system, they were able to avoid most royalties. The initial version of Explorer was incarnated from Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft licensed for a modest quarterly fee and a share of the non-Windows product revenues.
Internet Explorer is Microsoft's venture into the Web Browser market.