Choose "Install Now - Typical set of components" and click "Next". At this point an installation progress window will appear while the upgrade proceeds for several minutes. When the upgrade is complete, select "Yes" to restart your computer.

On the next page click the gray "Download Now" button.

12), Microsoft officially phased out support for Internet Explorer versions 7 through 10, which means the company will no longer release security update patches for the browser.

People who do not use the Microsoft Web browser may have ignored this news, but a warning from a Microsoft employee revealed that PC owners should be paying attention to what IE version they have installed.

The first one gives you direct access to various online services just by right-clicking anywhere on the web page or on highlighted text.For instance, you can look up a word, map an address or perform a search with those marked words.The main drawback is that all these options use Microsoft's Windows Live services which means that you're stuck with them.Java Script / HTML, the Web Browser control and Windows' Internet Protocol Handler, and those features aren't included in any system updates that operating systems receive. MORE: 12 Computer Security Mistakes You’re Probably Making In his blog post, Altimore explained how other programs on your computer that access the internet rely on these controllers, handlers and rendering engines to access the internet, so if your PC isn't running Windows 10 and cannot use Edge, it is relying on the technologies included in Internet Explorer.