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Yeah, they could do that now, but that doesn't help the IE 6, 7, 8 problems, does that?

• lmm 11y ago
  Yes it does. They could ship a statically-linked copy of Edge to Windows Vista (and even XP) users via Windows Update. The old IE DLLs would have to stay there to be used by the system, but the actual web browser could be a newer one.
  • chris_wot 11y ago
    That's a terrible idea from a security standpoint.
    • lmm 11y ago
      If they're stopping delivering security updates for those versions of IE then it's better than nothing. Actually assuming they keep the statically linked Edge updated via windows update then I don't see any issues (as annoying as a large update to a statically linked program will be).
  • Kwpolska 11y ago
    Microsoft Edge is a Universal Windows App, i.e. uses APIs that exist on Windows 10 only. And Microsoft is not backporting that.