Project Spartan Get's a Name, Meet Microsoft Edge

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Project Spartan Get's a Name. Meet Microsoft Edge a browser which cuts out a lot of the legacy problems with Internet Explorer and adds many new options.

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Read more on Microsoft's Edge browser here.
 
Firefox, Chrome and Edge it kinda works and they didn't have to change their logo much let's just hope it truly does give us the edge in internet browsing
 
I was hoping it stayed Spartan.. honestly the amount of logo's that could have gone to that name.. :p

I'll try this out for sure. If i like it and it actually is secured unlike IE then i'll continue to use it. Otherwise i'll stick to Chrome.
 
It's made by Microsoft that is why, It's not a open souce browser.

They made the OS you are using and that's not open source. So really you can't argue it when your OS is the same. Chrome is closed too in regards to Flash, other than that it's open. MS tend to make great software. I wouldn't be to worried.
 
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They made the OS you are using and that's not open source. So really you can't argue it when your OS is the same. Chrome is closed too in regards to Flash, other than that it's open. MS tend to make great software. I wouldn't be to worried.

Now that is a quite good arguement I must say, nice one NBD.
 
They made the OS you are using and that's not open source. So really you can't argue it when your OS is the same. Chrome is closed too in regards to Flash, other than that it's open. MS tend to make great software. I wouldn't be to worried.

I'm not using Chrome, I'm using Chromium which is an Open Source version of Chrome, You just can't playback Flash like you can in Chrome with Chromium you have too download the flash plugin to make it work.

To me it's still IE just reskinned and called a different name
 
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Tbh Chrome hasnt been that flash lately nor has Firefox so hopefully Edge will give them enough of a fright to pick their game up and if it's good enough ill change
 
wtf, it's been called edge since IE10/11 anyway? all that bullshit secrecy just to say .. oh yeah it's this ?

MS tend to make great software. I wouldn't be to worried.

Fucking, LOL NBD, are you attempting to just play devils advocate or just look stupid on this one?

Lets talk about M$'s web software shall we?

Internet Explorer, versions... 5 through 9 (and parts of 10, and 11/Edge) NONE of which are standards compliant, are filled with rendering bugs, are a complete frickin NIGHTMARE to make websites for because you have to make everything work, (for the standards that exist, that other browsers adhere to) then make it NOT work to work in IE.

Microsoft Outlook even TODAY, the only email client to use a massively outdated WORD PROCESSING ENGINE to render WEB DOCUMENTS?!?!?! Have you ever seen what Outlook does to a standards compliant, regular email? It takes a massive steaming shit on it. You are forced to use 7+ year old web-coding techniques relying on tables to get anything to render half-decent. It doesn't support most/all decent css, and applies it's own rules all over the place.

Microsoft make OK software, as we've learned it took a GPU vendor releasing a completely custom low-level API to get them to un-fuck Direct-X properly, they seem to have a child designing their OS UI these days, and every release of Office seems to change where they want their menus to be! Ribbons, no ribbons, custom msxml formats that are deliberately obfuscated?

In a world where cross-compatibility is becoming the Norm, M$ just isn't, in my opinion, keeping up with the trend. They're getting better, but they're not 'great software' makers by a long stretch, it's literally just that no-one else has stepped up to make stuff that's actually better and get a wide enough audience.
 
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You can imagine the group that had the job choosing the name. List of words that would be relevant, List of words that are not trademarked, List of words that don't mean something inappropriate in a different language. Then some bright spark brings up the granny question... The big blue e is the internet! So the logo has to look much the same so it's name has to start with an E.

QED, Edge simple really. I think it's dumb and really doesn't mean anything but it had to be called something.

From what I have seen from using it in the TP it's nice enough but has a long way to go before it's ready for mainstream.
 
Sad about the name, but I hope it could be a viable alternative to other browsers. I guess I'll find out when Windows 10 fully releases, I'll definitely give it a spin before I put Chrome or Firefox on my machine.
I'm not too savvy on what would be different internally, so I'm going to mostly judge it based on ease of use.
 
wtf, it's been called edge since IE10/11 anyway? all that bullshit secrecy just to say .. oh yeah it's this ?

MS tend to make great software. I wouldn't be to worried.

Fucking, LOL NBD, are you attempting to just play devils advocate or just look stupid on this one?

Lets talk about M$'s web software shall we?

Internet Explorer, versions... 5 through 9 (and parts of 10, and 11/Edge) NONE of which are standards compliant, are filled with rendering bugs, are a complete frickin NIGHTMARE to make websites for because you have to make everything work, (for the standards that exist, that other browsers adhere to) then make it NOT work to work in IE.

Microsoft Outlook even TODAY, the only email client to use a massively outdated WORD PROCESSING ENGINE to render WEB DOCUMENTS?!?!?! Have you ever seen what Outlook does to a standards compliant, regular email? It takes a massive steaming shit on it. You are forced to use 7+ year old web-coding techniques relying on tables to get anything to render half-decent. It doesn't support most/all decent css, and applies it's own rules all over the place.

Microsoft make OK software, as we've learned it took a GPU vendor releasing a completely custom low-level API to get them to un-fuck Direct-X properly, they seem to have a child designing their OS UI these days, and every release of Office seems to change where they want their menus to be! Ribbons, no ribbons, custom msxml formats that are deliberately obfuscated?

In a world where cross-compatibility is becoming the Norm, M$ just isn't, in my opinion, keeping up with the trend. They're getting better, but they're not 'great software' makers by a long stretch, it's literally just that no-one else has stepped up to make stuff that's actually better and get a wide enough audience.

^ This.... this just made my day and totally LMFAO :lol:!
 
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