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Posted on 05/06/2019 5:53:33 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft is unveiling a number of new features for its upcoming Edge Chromium browser today. The first big addition is a new “IE Mode” for Edge that will allow businesses to load old sites directly in the new Edge Chromium browser, using the Internet Explorer rendering engine. Microsoft is building IE directly into Edge for this purpose, so businesses aren’t forced to directly use IE for ancient internal sites.
“What we’re going to do is make this totally seamless,” explains Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore, in an interview with The Verge. Currently, the existing version of Edge will open Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10, which has a separate interface, favorites, and doesn’t work well on modern websites. This new IE mode literally loads the content within Edge, so you’d never be able to tell the difference, apart from a small IE logo on the tab that indicates that this mode has been enabled.
This new IE mode is designed exclusively for businesses, and Belfiore admits it’s a big pitch to get them to use Edge Chromium instead of a combination of Chrome and Internet Explorer. “We’ve got a browser for you that updates regularly that will go on Windows 7 and the Mac that handles things like IT customization of the New Tab page and Microsoft Search, and IE built-in,” says Belfiore.
[LOTS of pictures and examples at the link...]
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
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It's . . . ALIVE!
For sharepoint where I am, IE lives as the default browser.
I'm so sorry to hear that. My deepest sympathies... but you're not alone
Is something 20 years old ancient in a context which has only existed for 20 years?
Is 1000 years ancient? Not if you're thinking "Roman Empire".
Is 3000 years ancient? Not if you're thinking "Chinese culture".
That said, yeah, calling some technology "ancient" simply because it's been supplanted by newer technology, is stretching the definition.
Did you switch to a Mac ?
Unless you did, you didn't get rid of Explorer. All browsers on a 'pc' use explorer.exe as a base functioning unit.
I tell end users to remove the Edge icon from the taskbar. IE11 is the standard company browser for all internal websites.
End users can use IE11, Edge or Chrome for external sites.
“Congratulations, your strychnine now comes in cyanide flavor too!”
It’s an undeniable fact that obsolescence strikes quickly in IT (I’ve been working in it for decades too), and I’ve referred to 10-year old — obsolete — Linux distros as “ancient” when explaining why it’s necessary to upgrade. In that context, “ancient” carries an additional flavor beyond mere obsolescence, something more pejorative. But I would not call it “malign”.
I don’t like that we live in such rapidly changing times — it’s not healthy. So in that regard I suspect you and I agree. :-)
I only use Internet Exploder to run Windows Update. It’s slow for browsing the web.
At work we are forced to use Win 10 for some things. (Linux for others thankfully) On win we have IE and Edge, with Edge being all but useless- unable to properly render about one third to one half of the web sites I tried it on before giving up on it entirely. IE is no picnic either. In fact IT recently installed Chrome as a third option. That is now my go-to browser. It may not be any more or less secure, ditto respect for privacy. But at least it is faster and marginally more stable.
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