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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. Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On the edge of relevance, more like!

    1. Re:Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Google thanks you for your loyalty. And the x-year long history of add-on choices, Web searches, personal and business correspondence, phone records, daily movements, Web browsing, and whatever other personal, private information you have given to them. You truly will be a warning to future generations.

      (chrome, search, android / voice, android, doubleclick, other)

    2. Re:Hah! by WillKemp · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yeah, one thing Microsoft does well - the only thing - is their anticompetitive strategy.

    3. Re:Hah! by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Insightful

      And Microsoft's market share of mobile devices is almost as pathetic as BlackBerry's. So why would any mobile app developer even give a fuck about some porting tools?

      Face it. Microsoft lost the mobile game; not once, but like three times now.

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  2. Allows them to keep the blue "e" by Lumpio- · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So that the clueless people still using it don't have to buy a new computer when the Internet disappears.

  3. Re:I think our namespace is getting too crowded... by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IE has long supported a header:

    X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge

    This tells it that your website is compatible with the "edge" of technology... the latest stuff the browser supports. If you don't have it, IE might determine your site needs to be run in IE6 compatibility mode.

    This idea of the "edge" has been around IE since I believe IE10. The concept has clearly stuck.

  4. Re:Microsoft Edge? by Jason+Levine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nah, just E.

    Well, at least users won't be confused. They can still "click on the E" to get to the Internet.

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