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Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 ( IE4) is the fourth, and by now, discontinued, version of the Internet Explorer graphical web browser that Microsoft unveiled in Spring of 1997, and released on September 22, 1997, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for the classic Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX [1] [2] [3] and marketed a...

11 Screenshots Release notes With version 4, Microsoft began referring to IE as an "operating system component". IE 4 was bundled with Windows 98 First Edition, and Windows 95 OSR 2.5. IE 4 32-bit supported 95 and NT 4. IE 4 was also made avaliable for HP-UX and Solaris, built with ported Windows libraries.

Internet Explorer 4.0 makes Web browsing fast, easy and secure. With unique features such as Explorer Bars to help manage favorite Web sites, users will spend less time trying to locate information and more time enjoying dynamic content on the Web.

The first version of Internet Explorer, (at that time named Microsoft Internet Explorer, later referred to as Internet Explorer 1) made its debut on August 24, 1995. [1] It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic, which Microsoft licensed from Spyglass Inc., like many other companies initiating browser development.

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. It further provides for the capture or input of information which may be returned to the presenting system, then stored or processed as necessary.