3 ms·
That's actually rather mature of Microsoft to do. It'll be nice to get to open IE zero times instead of once to install Chrome on a new PC now.
by PascLeRasc 9y ago
That's actually rather mature of Microsoft to do. It'll be nice to get to open IE zero times instead of once to install Chrome on a new PC now.
- WorldMaker 9y agoThere is no IE anymore. In Windows 10 you already open IE zero times. There is still a blue E icon, but Edge is not IE.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThis is false. If you had ever switched default browsers on Windows 10, you'd notice Internet Explorer not only still exists, but is on every Windows 10 PC. Most businesses which use Windows 10 still default to it. Beyond that, Edge is definitely a fresh UI, but it's still based, at it's core, on the last version of IE. Some of the same particularly odd IE quirks (particularly with SVGs) still exist in Edge, though it's much more standards-compliant than older IE versions.
- WorldMaker 9y agoI think its increasingly disingenuous to refer to Edge as IE. IE11 only exists in Windows 10 because Edge hard forked enough that the majority of weird quirks only work in the zombie IE11. Any business switching the Windows 10 default browser to IE11 is definitely doing something wrong. Any consumer that opens IE11 even once is probably doing something wrong.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoSure, I wouldn't refer to Edge as 'IE', but the notion that IE "doesn't exist" is equally silly. I think you'd be shocked to discover: Most corporate environments still default to IE, including if they use Windows 10. This is mostly because of archaic things like Java applications which tend to insist on it, or even in some cases, dependencies on ActiveX controls in legacy software. I think everyone in the corporate space is counting the days until they can switch, but the light at the end of the tunnel still seems somewhat far off.