Internet explorer for Mac

Internet Explorer for Mac was first released in 1996, it was discontinued in 2005.

As indicated by BDAqua Microsoft have released a completely new web browser called Edge. Edge is totally different to Internet Explorer, Edge is based on Google's 'Chrome' engine. Since Google Chrome is available for Mac as well as Windows the Microsoft version is being made available for Mac as well as Windows. Currently it is still in beta-testing.

If you want to run 'real' Internet Explorer then the following are possible means to do this.

1. Use Apple's Boot Camp Assistant to setup and install Windows on your Mac as an alternative to boot in to, this will make your Mac a 100% Windows compatible computer and hence able to run 100% genuine Internet Explorer
2. Use a virtualisation product such as Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox to run a virtual machine running Windows and hence Internet Explorer, this will be more than sufficient for running a web browser and lets you run both Mac and Windows apps at the same time
3. Microsoft actually provide free virtual machines specifically for running and testing Internet Explorer, see - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ they will self destruct after 90 days but you can wipe and create a new one at that point
4. Hypothetically you could use CrossOverMac or WINE or similar to run Internet Explorer, however typically you have to use a much older version of Internet Explorer

Note: If this is for the purpose of accessing a specific website which only supports Internet Explorer you should burn the relevant web developer at the stake. If it is an internal corporate website you should also burn your CIO and CEO at the stake.

Even Microsoft are discontinuing Internet Explorer for Windows which is why they are developing Edge as its replacement.

To add a major point to John Lookwood's excellent post. IE for Mac is ancient (in computer years). It will be virtually useless. Translation - there aren't many web sites that will display properly.

Here's how it displays msn.com

It is so far out of date that it has no idea how to handle Ajax, CSS, HTML5, or anything else developed as web standards since its last update.

There is no compatible version for recent Macs.

that's old stuff, from OS 9.

Closest you can come is MS' Edge Browser...

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/20/microsoft-edge-macos-canary-preview/

Are you trying to load a website that requires Microsoft Internet Explorer?

What is that website?