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Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE
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.
I tried Edge on my Windows tablet and wasn't impressed. The controls were smaller and harder to manipulate. My IE shortcuts were not imported to Edge, so I would have had to start all over.
I installed Windows 10 on my tablet, tried Edge, then uninstalled Windows 10 from my tablet.
The changes in Windows 10 make it more of a desktop OS, but make it much harder, imo, to start the programs you want on a tablet. The large buttons on the Metro 'Start' menu are gone. Apps open in floating windows. Essentially, everything became tiny and hard to manipulate with the touch screen.
It wasn't enough to keep Windows 10. Luckily there is an 'uninstall' option and my tablet is reverted back to 8.1 now. You have 30 days after upgrading to revert. The revert was quick, it only took about 20 minutes.
And then Chrome turned around and finished Firefox.
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You mean like Kin, Zune or Plays for Sure? The original ipad was obviously a 'prototype' design to see if it would catch on. The ipad 2 should be considered the first true production ipad, and it runs the latest iOS. My fully 64 bit Mac Mini should get OS updates for a very long time. (the 64 bit issue is why we have seen a lot of older macs lose support.). Apple's 'planned obsolescence' is a bit overblown.
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The browser UI is new, but the rendering engine is still based on Trident. They just removed all the legacy stuff, and focused on clean implementations of the standards without worrying so much about backward compatibility. Edge will puke about as badly as Chrome or Firefox will if fed code and markup intended for IE7, instead of falling back to IE7's rendering style.
Which isn't to say there aren't going to be security bugs, of course. But then, the same is true of all the big browser vendors.
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IE hasn't been integrated with the shell for a decade. If you type a URL into an Explorer window in Win7 or 8, it just launches your default browser, which may not be IE.
No it's written in WinRT which is to say it's sandboxed from the rest of the operating system using the WinRT app model. One of the annoying things about developing for WinRT is just how low privileged an application in WinRT is without any means to escalate except by explicit user permission. Shell access is impossible. COM is nearly non-existent. The only way to get data to and from the application in the WinRT framework is through a specific API contract that makes Soviet Russia look like a libertarian paradise by comparison.
In short, by writing Edge in WinRT they automatically picked up a lot of security features automatically. I would be really surprised if in its current state it could be used to modify system files.
I still run the Zune software and have a Zune Subscription. I don't know what you're talking about, because I'm still enjoying my 10 free songs per month!
Chrome didn't kill Firefix. Mozilla's UX team killed Firefox.
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Honestly, search has been here since Vista and was refined in Windows 7. The only time in the past 7 years I've actually dug through a menu was when I forgot what a program was called but I could remember what the icon looked like.
Want to start Handbrake? Tap start > Type "han" > Hit enter.
Want to start Word? Tap start > type "wo" > hit enter.
I can do most of these faster than anyone can even take their hand off the keyboard and move it to the mouse.