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Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge 153

Posted by samzenpus from the a-rose-by-any-other-name dept.
An anonymous reader writes: At its Build 2015 developer conference today, Microsoft announced Project Spartan will be called Microsoft Edge. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the operating systems group, announced the news on stage, adding that Edge will have support for extensions. Edge is Microsoft's new browser shipping on all Windows 10 devices (PCs, tablets, smartphones, and so on). Belfiore explained the name as referring to "being on the edge of consuming and creating."
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Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge

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  • Hah! (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    On the edge of relevance, more like!

    • renamed to get away from the stink of "Internet Explorer"

  • Microsoft Edge? (Score:5, Funny)

    by DiSKiLLeR ( 17651 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:27PM (#49581151) Homepage Journal

    So.. ME instead of IE? ME.... reminds me of Windows ME. *shudder*.

    • Re:Microsoft Edge? (Score:5, Funny)

      by Adriax ( 746043 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:46PM (#49581275)

      Nah, just E.
      It will be introduced to the public via incredibly annoying commercials featuring stereotypical frat guys telling each other "Duuuude! She so wants the E!" "Ya man, I showed her my E last night and she was all over it!" and so on. Ending with them in uncomfortable silence after one of them (probably the token uncool guy) makes a homoerotic comment about another guy's E.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Whiteox ( 919863 )

      Microsoft have always had problems naming things.
      The rationale for calling the browser Edge, shows their corporate Think: "being on the edge of consuming and creating". Really? The MS marketing dept. fucked that up well and truly.
      The issue here is that they could have called it what they wanted and associated any wordage to it, patted themselves on the back and gone out to a very long lunch. What they failed to do is to use the word in a sentence. "Have you got Edge?"
      No I haven't. I'm as blunt as the family

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Quirkz ( 1206400 )

      I've been thinking it ties in to other parts of their naming scheme, like Surface. "Use Edge on Surface." All they need is a Microsoft Corner or maybe Internet Bevel and they can capture the lucrative carpenters market.

  • What's the slashdot equivalent of "shitpost?" You might have at least mentioned that it's going to have a new renderer and support for extensions, rather than just farting out a 3 sentence blurb about the name.

    However, only Edge will use Microsoft’s new rendering engine of the same name. ...
    Developers will be able to take their Chrome extensions or Firefox add-ons and, with “just a few changes,” bring them to Microsoft Edge. Belfiore demoed a Reddit extension originally built for Chrome, running on Microsoft Edge.

    And yeah, the "Reddit extension" in question is RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite).

    • Developers will be able to take their Chrome extensions or Firefox add-ons and, with “just a few changes,” bring them to Microsoft Edge. Belfiore demoed a Reddit extension originally built for Chrome, running on Microsoft Edge.

      I wondered why they'd bothered, but this might explain part of it. It's been ages since MS had a real go at EEE. Embrace other browsers' extensions, extend the standards so they no longer work with the original browsers and then extinguish them. I don't think it'll work this time though.

  • As it stands the only way I use I.E. is if my mouse hand decided to pull a Dr. Strangelove on me https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] (for those that won't get the ref)

    I mean what insanity is microsoft trying this time to get people to use it ? Hijacking other browsers display windows ?

    • Makes job much easier for Web developers to have a more up to date and compliant browser. Grandma and Mom's do not know what a browser and will always click the blue E out of habit because of familiarity even if Chrome is installed

  • E = Internet (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    How are people going to tell which big E means Internet?

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by TWX ( 665546 )
      Well, since the current logo is an E, if the new logo is an E, then the end-user won't have any trouble knowing which icon to avoid clicking on.

  • For all the new edge use cases of extra css and js conditional statements needed to display content properly ... ducks

  • I expect it will be at _an_ edge of consuming and creating, though perhaps not the _leading_ edge as they'd like us to believe.

  • Big News! (Score:5, Funny)

    by tsqr ( 808554 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:38PM (#49581227)

    The last big news about Windows 10 was Spartan. Today's big news about Windows 10 is that Spartan has been re-named.

    I can't tell you how excited I am. Really, I can't.

  • Allows them to keep the blue "e" (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Lumpio- ( 986581 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:42PM (#49581257)
    So that the clueless people still using it don't have to buy a new computer when the Internet disappears.

  • Every time they're about to release, things grind to a halt?

  • for the inept generation? Too many letters and words?

    • Actually I was thinking Edge will still decline due to the icon.

      Yes Mom and Grandma will still click on it out of habit, but the millenial generation won't even give it a chance. They will see the E and think of IE 7 at work and go eww and click on Chrome instead etc.

      • Once you've eaten one shit sandwich and it tasted like ass, you're a bit leery of the same guy who says "buttttt this one's chocolate!"

  • I think our namespace is getting too crowded... (Score:5, Funny)

    by itsdapead ( 734413 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:01PM (#49581397)

    Edge?

    Would that be named after the mobile broadband technology, the guitarist from U2 or Samsung's flagship smartphone? Why don't they give it a meaningful name that somehow relates to its function, like, er, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Mozilla, SeaMonkey... Oh, right. Failing that, why not the old, reliable pseudo Latin/Greek names: Webia, Browsium, internet startup names (MeWeb, WebBox, WeBrowse...) or even retro Unix names ('yawb', 'enie')?

  • They named it Edge years ago (Score:5, Informative)

    by Lodlaiden ( 2767969 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:25PM (#49581537)

    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

    • Exactly what I came here to comment about, but thought to check if someone else had first.

    • No, that means latest, as in bleeding edge.

      Ie 11 has compatibility settings for Edge, 10, 9, 8, 7. How could it implement compatibility with a non existent browser?

  • I wonder if the trade mark that Ubuntu presumably has could come into legal dispute? https://www.indiegogo.com/proj... [indiegogo.com]

  • From a Microsoft hater (Score:4, Informative)

    by Ol Olsoc ( 1175323 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:54PM (#49582049)
    I'm actually hoping that Redmond puts out a good product with W10, and if Edge works well, that will be good also.

    Microsoft has been wallowing in a Ballmer induced miasma since Vista, they have lost their way. And even though 7 didn't suck - how's that for damning with faint praise? - Windows 8 and 8.1 had the shithouse rats complaining about the stench.

    But I'm really really hoping that they climb out of the abyss, and return the user experience to XP days, which was one where people came as close to "just doing stuff" as Microsoft ever did.

    Waiting hopefully, and if they don't, it's not a huge problem, I've got my Linux and OSX machines - but maybe pappy wants a new toy, a bright shiny Windows lappy.

  • But grittier, dark and edgy?

    • A browser we don't need, want and would like to go away gets renamed and we celebrate like something has changed.

      I doubt they completely rewrote it. Their marketing department has a long history of talking about IE standards compliance and IE's technology leadership which is well known. So why does the marketing department get a pass this time around?

      I'm not going to call it Edge. It's just going to be newer versions of IE to me. They'd be better calling it "web browser" or "browser" and leave it at that.

  • ... HTTP 500: the server made a Bono

  • Sob!

    I wonder how thoroughly they will f*ck it up. If it's as bad as active X then the pit of despair has no bottom.

  • opened IE. Web devs don't count.

    For me it's been at least a year.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Whiteox ( 919863 )

      I did, about a week ago. I can't see myself using it because of the GUI. It's not very easy to use on a desktop as too many things are now hidden, buried or just not there anymore.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Shados ( 741919 )

      IE at this point is arguably better than Firefox, the later having fallen from grace quite a bit.

      Also, I know you said web devs don't count, but recently, IE11's devtools have been updated to be pretty good. They're not on par with Chrome's, but for some stuff (sourcemaps), they're better (and are leaps and bounds better than anything available on Firefox).

    • For a long time, at work, I didn't have any choice. It was fairly recent that they installed FF as a secondary browser. I still use IE for some of the internal web stuff, since some of it doesn't work with FF.

  • Killer feature (Score:5, Funny)

    by mwvdlee ( 775178 ) on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:36AM (#49583937) Homepage

    Just watched the promo video. It looks f**king awesome!

    Away with consumption (according to the video; writing HTML) and towards creating (according to the video; drawing a smiley face)!

    The "drawing mustaches on marsupials" feating is the killer feature of a new generation of browsers.
    Can your Chrome or Firefix draw mustaches on marsupials? Does it even HAVE mustaches?
    Do you want to be a slave to consumption? Making webpages? While you can be the god of your own highlighted-random-text creations?

  • So, will (or does) Spartan/Edge 1) support URLs longer than 2083 bytes (believe me, there is use for longer URLs... besides, there is no limit on their length in the http standard) 2) download foo.tgz file as foo.tgz, and not as foo.gz?
  • Wondering what the biggest problem is with IE? The quirks between different versions of the same browser, the speed? Was it that Microsoft fought the development of open web standards? Or is it just that using IE is slow and sucks? What are the ideological problems with IE, what are the technical problems, in a nutshell? People seem annoyed with the direction of Firefox's development, untrusting of Google's Chrome. What does that leave you? Opera?

  • or a phailure

  • do they have some kind of name sharing agreement? explorer's and edge's?

  • I'm thinking that, just like each succeeding version of MS Windows was based on the same actual code base just with changes, so too will MSE be essentially MSIE under the hood PERHAPS with some cosmetic changes to make people think it's different.

    Microsoft Internet Explorer by any other name is still Microsoft Internet Explorer. I suspect that they're trying - desperately trying - to dump the poor reputation their browser has but I really doubt they would want to write the software completely from scratch l

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