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Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-rose-by-any-other-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At its Build 2015 developer conference today, Microsoft announced Project Spartan will be called Microsoft Edge. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the operating systems group, announced the news on stage, adding that Edge will have support for extensions. Edge is Microsoft's new browser shipping on all Windows 10 devices (PCs, tablets, smartphones, and so on). Belfiore explained the name as referring to "being on the edge of consuming and creating."

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  1. Microsoft Edge? by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 4, Funny

    So.. ME instead of IE? ME.... reminds me of Windows ME. *shudder*.

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    1. Re:Microsoft Edge? by Adriax · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, just E.
      It will be introduced to the public via incredibly annoying commercials featuring stereotypical frat guys telling each other "Duuuude! She so wants the E!" "Ya man, I showed her my E last night and she was all over it!" and so on. Ending with them in uncomfortable silence after one of them (probably the token uncool guy) makes a homoerotic comment about another guy's E.

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  2. Big News! by tsqr · · Score: 4, Funny

    The last big news about Windows 10 was Spartan. Today's big news about Windows 10 is that Spartan has been re-named.

    I can't tell you how excited I am. Really, I can't.

  3. I think our namespace is getting too crowded... by itsdapead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Edge?

    Would that be named after the mobile broadband technology, the guitarist from U2 or Samsung's flagship smartphone? Why don't they give it a meaningful name that somehow relates to its function, like, er, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Mozilla, SeaMonkey... Oh, right. Failing that, why not the old, reliable pseudo Latin/Greek names: Webia, Browsium, internet startup names (MeWeb, WebBox, WeBrowse...) or even retro Unix names ('yawb', 'enie')?

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  4. Honestly, by fisted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows Idiot was much better than expected.

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  5. Killer feature by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just watched the promo video. It looks f**king awesome!

    Away with consumption (according to the video; writing HTML) and towards creating (according to the video; drawing a smiley face)!

    The "drawing mustaches on marsupials" feating is the killer feature of a new generation of browsers.
    Can your Chrome or Firefix draw mustaches on marsupials? Does it even HAVE mustaches?
    Do you want to be a slave to consumption? Making webpages? While you can be the god of your own highlighted-random-text creations?

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