It was the default browser in Windows 95 OSR 2.5 (later default was Internet Explorer 5) and Windows 98 First Edition (later default was Internet Explorer 6) and can replace previous versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 in addition the Internet Explorer layout engine MSHTML (Trident) was introduced.
It was superseded by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 in March 1999. Its distribution methods and Windows integration were involved in the United States v. It was one of the main participants of the first browser war.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 ( IE4) is a graphical web browser that Microsoft released in September 1997, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for the classic Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX and marketed as 'The Web the Way You Want It'. X86, 68k (Up to 4.5), PPC, Alpha AXP, PA-RISC, and SPARC