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Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-tool-in-the-box dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Windows 10 launches today and with it comes a whole new browser, Microsoft Edge. You can still use Internet Explorer if you want, but it's not the default. IE turns 20 in less than a month, which is ancient in internet years, so it's not surprising that Microsoft is shoving it aside. Still, leaving behind IE and launching a new browser built from the ground up marks the end of an era for Microsoft. “Knowing that browsing is still one of the very top activities that people do on a PC, we knew there was an opportunity, and really an obligation, to push the web browsing experience and so that’s what we’ve done with Microsoft Edge," Drew DeBruyne, director of program management at Microsoft told VentureBeat.

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  1. It's like winning the lottery! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    New Browser code from Microsoft written from the ground up? Time to go look up details on Microsoft's Bug Bounty program.

  2. Re:There will be some early bugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

  3. Familiar Character by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    IE is like the horror movie killer that keeps coming back after repeated stabbings, burnings and exorcisms. Call it Chuckie, Freddie or a Leprechaun, it will be back.

  4. Re:Quick question by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Other than superficial UI bullshit, does Windows 10 have any features? Was there any kernel development? If so, what was produced?

    Yes, they've now added an "Ex" suffix to every system call. You now have to specify an average of 17 flag constants each with a name that averages of 30 upper-case characters, as well as initialize and provide "long pointers" to an average of five large C structures for each request you make to the OS.

  5. Re: Is it still integrated with the shell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly that's not the case now: It has integrated Flash support.

    There you go. Microsoft wouldn't stand still by letting some other manufacturer make a Flash plugin with vulnerabilities: they decided they could make all those vulnerabilities in-house.

  6. We Must Save Internet Explorer 6!!! by Cito · · Score: 1, Funny

    Everyone join

    http://www.saveie6.com/

    The best browser ever! Don't submit to a post Gates Microsoft!