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While both Betteridge's Law and common sense say, "No," Zack Whittaker at ZDNet takes a closer look:
An analysis of the last five-months' worth of monthly software updates shows that Edge had 25 vulnerabilities shared with versions of Internet Explorer, which had a total of 100 vulnerabilities.
Earlier this month on its scheduled Patch Tuesday update offering, Microsoft released MS15-124, a cumulative update for Internet Explorer, and MS15-125, a near-identical patch for Edge. Of the 15 flaws patched in Internet Explorer, 11 of those were also patched in Edge.
According to a Microsoft blog post earlier this year, the software giant's newest browser, an exclusive for Windows 10, is said to have been designed to "defend users from increasingly sophisticated and prevalent attacks."
In doing that, Edge scrapped older, insecure, or flawed plugins or frameworks, like ActiveX or Browser Helper Objects. That already helped to cut a number of possible drive-by attacks traditionally used by attackers. EdgeHTML, which powers Edge's rendering engine, is a fork of Trident, which still powers Internet Explorer.
[...] Older versions of Internet Explorer will be retired by mid-January, giving millions of users about a month to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11, or to Edge on Windows 10.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:59PM
They deprecate all but the highest version available on the OS. So IE9 and 10 remain supported on supported Windows versions that don't have access to IE11.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @09:05PM
WinXP is no longer supported, and I don't think vista is either
Win7 has become Win10 because of the upgrade nagging, so has win8 and win8.1.
Essentially, there is only Win10 which has access to Edge, what is your point?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by WillR on Wednesday December 16 2015, @09:27PM
Win7 has become Win10 because of the upgrade nagging, so has win8 and win8.1.
Only at home, unless your company's IT department is really clueless.
7 is the new XP, we're going to be stuck with it for a loooooooooooong time yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:22AM
The PoS version of XP is supported until 2019. It's binary compatible with the "normal" XP, people just install the patches manually.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday December 17 2015, @02:00AM
Eh? Isn't anything from IE9 and below gonna be unsupported come January [microsoft.com]?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:24AM
IE9 stays supported on Windows Vista only until Vista itself is EOL'd in 2017.
Here's some more info: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/15/end-of-support-for-old-internet-explorer-versions-draws-near/ [ghacks.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:58AM
With all of Redmond's forced "upgrades" lately, it seems that having a Visduh install is the superior way to get the pile^W stack of MICROS~1 stuff you want.
Who could ever have imagined that "Visduh" and "superior" would ever appear in the same sentence?
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday December 17 2015, @08:18PM
it seems that having a Visduh install is the superior way to get the pile^W stack of MICROS~1 stuff you want
What Windows stuff would I want?
And you realise it's been 20 years since that name was generally seen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @11:17PM
20 years
If you are saying that Visduh was available in 1995 (or, even worse, that it EoL'd in 1995), I'd say your calculator is busted.
If you are saying that you haven't run Windoze since 1995: High 5; you beat me by several years.
What Windows stuff would I want?
You and I are in philosophical agreement.
The existence of this subthread, however, demonstrates that there are some folks who can't seem to break the addiction.
I can sympathize with certain use cases:
Company with a clueless purchasing department and/or tyrannical IT department; boss who has drunk the kool-aid; forced to use highly specialized equipment from a manufacturer who doesn't do cross-platform support.
It's good to be king of your own domain but, in the real world, there are a lot of peons who have to accept what is offered.
-- gewg_