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

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."

Comments

Safari Does

[CritterNYC]

Safari works the same way. That's why folks with older Mac hardware who aren't running the latest OS can't run the latest Safari.

Re:Safari Does

[dgatwood]

Yes, but the underlying WebKit framework still gets updates that bring better compatibility. Only the user-facing features remain static.

They named it Edge years ago

[Lodlaiden]

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

From a Microsoft hater

[Ol Olsoc]

I'm actually hoping that Redmond puts out a good product with W10, and if Edge works well, that will be good also.

Microsoft has been wallowing in a Ballmer induced miasma since Vista, they have lost their way. And even though 7 didn't suck - how's that for damning with faint praise? - Windows 8 and 8.1 had the shithouse rats complaining about the stench.

But I'm really really hoping that they climb out of the abyss, and return the user experience to XP days, which was one where people came as close to "just doing stuff" as Microsoft ever did.

Waiting hopefully, and if they don't, it's not a huge problem, I've got my Linux and OSX machines - but maybe pappy wants a new toy, a bright shiny Windows lappy.