Microsoft on Wednesday made its new Edge browser available to participants in the Windows Insider Program. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president, operating systems group, made the announcement at the company’s Build developers’ conference, being held in San Francisco through Friday. Edge is available through the Windows 10 Preview, accessible to Windows Insiders. It incorporates Cortana, Microsoft’s personal assistant. That lets it “learn what you care about and helps you get things done,” Belfiore said.
After decades of incompetence and arrogance that resulted in a slower browsing experience, security problems and major headaches for developers, it appears that Microsoft has finally learned it's lesson. Internet Exploder is already the fastest browser I use, in part because it preloads with Windows, giving it an *unfair* advantage, and in part because it is just, well, fast.
But it still doesn't run the plugins that I want to use with it; at least not well. Perhaps Edge will change that. But the question remains, will the Microsoft name and it's association with IE remain a ball and chain around the ankle, both from a developer and user perspective, of what may be a pretty terrific browser? I guess time will tell.
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Microsoft Offers Devs an Edge
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 30, 2015 02:01 PMMicrosoft on Wednesday made its new Edge browser available to participants in the Windows Insider Program. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president, operating systems group, made the announcement at the company’s Build developers’ conference, being held in San Francisco through Friday. Edge is available through the Windows 10 Preview, accessible to Windows Insiders. It incorporates Cortana, Microsoft’s personal assistant. That lets it “learn what you care about and helps you get things done,” Belfiore said.
But it still doesn't run the plugins that I want to use with it; at least not well. Perhaps Edge will change that. But the question remains, will the Microsoft name and it's association with IE remain a ball and chain around the ankle, both from a developer and user perspective, of what may be a pretty terrific browser? I guess time will tell.