Internet Explorer supported the embedding of a number of multimedia formats into web pages, including AVI and QuickTime formatted video and AIFF, Midi and WAV formatted audio.The non-beta final version was released three months later on April 23, 1996. The Mac version, especially version 2.1, was praised for being economic with resources and for new features. There were 16-bit and 32-bit versions depending on the OS. Version 2.1 for the Mac came out in August 1996, the same month version 2 for Windows was superseded by Microsoft Internet Explorer 3, which was heavily changed from version 2. The 2.0i version supported double-byte character-sets for supporting Japanese, Korean, Polish or Russian characters in web pages. It launched with twelve languages including English but this expanded to 24, 20, and 9 for Win 95, Win 3.1 and Mac respectively by April 1996. Version 2 was included in Windows 95 OEM Service Release (OSR 1) and Microsoft's Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 in early 1996. Version 2 was also the first release for Windows 3.1 and Macintosh System 7.0.1(PPC or 68k), although the Mac version was not released until January 1996 for PPC, and April for 68k. The Beta for Mac on PowerPC came out in January, and the finalized version in April for 68k and PowerPC. It was released for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5 in November 1995 and was bundled with NT 4.0 in July 1996. Internet Explorer version 2 was released in beta in October 1995, only 2 months after version 1 came out in Microsoft Plus! for 95 that August. In May 1996 FTP Software announced it was providing Microsoft with various technology for Internet Explorer 2.0 for Windows 3.1, including a PPP network, 16-bit email client, and other technology. IE replicated many of the quirks of Netscape Navigator, and allowed importing bookmarks from it. However, the archive 32-bit version is publicly available on the browser archive. Internet Explorer 2 is no longer available for download from Microsoft. During its tenure, IE market share only went up to about roughly 3-9% by mid 1996, before IE3 came out. Its market share was also much lower than later versions. It lacked many features that became common in later IE versions, including the Blue 'e' logo, integration with Windows Explorer, and bundled programs. Version 2 launched with twelve languages including English but this expanded to 24 for Windows 95, 20 for Windows 3.1, and 9 for the Macintosh by April 1996. Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 (abbreviated as IE2) is a graphical web browser released on Novemby Microsoft for Windows 95 and Windows NT and in April 1996 for Apple Macintosh and Windows 3.1.

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