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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. 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.

  2. 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)

  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.