In late 2018, Microsoft announced that Edge would be redeveloped to use the open-source Chromium platform started by Google with contributions by a global community. This browser fragmentation caused many issues in the legal vertical. Other firms chose to set IE 11 as their default while other firms chose Edge. Customers and 3 rd parties did not want to invest in rebuilding sites to make them work in Edge.īecause of this, we have had many clients adopt Google Chrome or Firefox as their default browser regardless of Windows version as they knew those browsers on Windows 7, 8, or 10 and Windows Server (Citrix) would have the same experience (in most cases). With the introduction of Windows 10 and the new Edge browser, Microsoft hoped their new modern browser would compete with Chrome and Firefox. The rapid nature of change with HTML standards made it hard for legal vertical web sites to adopt to those changes and continue to support Internet Explorer.
These changes were hard for many organizations to adopt. IE has been through many upgrades and became bloated as Microsoft added more features and changed compatibility modes a few times. Internet Explorer since then has been the default browser in all Windows versions from Windows 95 and through Windows 8.1. Those of us that have been in IT for a bit will remember the browser wars that started in the nineties. This new browser replaced Internet Explorer (IE) 11, which Microsoft introduced in 1995 along with Windows 95.
When Microsoft released Windows 10 in the summer of 2015, a new browser named Edge was introduced. Read on to learn how to prepare for this new change. With this release, the legal vertical vendors will be able to stop supporting Internet Explorer. This new version of Edge Chromium also supports Windows 7, 8.1, and Windows Server.
On January 15 th, Microsoft will be releasing a new version of Microsoft Edge built on Chromium to all supported versions of Windows 10.
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