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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.
Because if so, it'll be just as dangerous as it ever was.
I think Firefox dealt it the mortal blow, and then Chrome finished the job.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"He then laid out Microsoft’s three goals with Edge:"
1) Build a browser that feels “responsive, fast, and lightweight” but that is also “clean, doesn’t get in your way, and also works great with the modern web.”
No, idiot, build a browser that IS responsive, fast, and lightweight. I don't care how it makes me 'feel'.
2) Build a browser that is trusted and lets people feel safe.
Again, no, I want the browser to BE safe, and don't care how it makes me 'feel'. All this touchy feely crap you can leave to the hippies. Also if you want me to trust your browser, then make the code open-source and the software FREE (as in speech, not beer)
3) Build a browser that is “personal and productive,” fitting in with what Microsoft is trying to do overall as a company.
No, I don't want a personal browser, I want a simple browser that answers 1 and 2 without the bloat that is IE (or worse Office)
Nope, we just keep supporting the standards, and Edge will work just fine. If all goes well, we'll actually be able to DROP support for more older browsers as more people migrate off XP & Vista.
That's the dream, anyway. :)
I don't see why people think IE can be "killed." Until you convince curmudgeony old people (like governments) whose web-based tools break on anything other than IE to pay green money to update their websites, IE will stick around. And, since some people (mostly governments) will never be willing to pay money to fix something that "isn't broken" (as long as you use it on IE), IE will never, ever be completely dispensable.
I did not expect to come here and fine someone complaining about how great Windows 8 is.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
The fastest way to launch a program is to click on a shortcut. The start menu is for discovering what programs are on the computer. Searching is useless if you don't know what is installed.
Windows 7 fell out of mainstream support January 13, 2015. That means no new features.
It's a shame that Microsoft is unable to develop a browser that is not part of the operating system, as it results in disappointed customers who want to try the new version of the browser app.
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Oddly, both Mozilla and Google seem to have the technical wherewithal to develop browsers that are not part of the operating system. I wonder why Microsoft is so incapable of such a technical accomplishment.
It's great when you can get away with that, but all too many companies (like where I work) have to deal with our customers as they are, not how we would wish them to be.
It's all the people like you who are the problem. If "use something standards-compliant or have a bad experience" were the universal norm, we wouldn't have these problems.
You say that like you think it's my decision to do this. I assure you, it is not.
Who the hell modded this clown up?
There is a tablet mode, which you failed to figure out!
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
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