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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday December 16 2015, @10:20PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday December 16 2015, @10:20PM (#277338) Journal

    Nobody cares about the "openwashing".

    What's actually happening is that the browser is more standards compliant. I guess you can throw "open" in front of "standards compliant" for added confusion.

    Edge is a clean break from old IE rendering engines. Even if it reuses old IE code, they can break many aspects of IE compatibility while IE11 handles legacy stuff in perpetuity. That could increase the security of Edge.

    http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+11,edge+14 [caniuse.com]
    http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/20/microsoft_edge_good_for_web_sucky_standards/ [theregister.co.uk]
    http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/08/microsoft_thanks_google_well_have_your_media_codec_for_edge/ [theregister.co.uk]

    Clearly something has changed. Not enough for you, or maybe anyone here, but it is still a good thing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:28AM (#277418)

    caniuse.com/#compare=ie+11,edge+14

    In my Blocked Items listing for that page:
    caniuse.com/js.php?1449817488

    Talk about your Klein flash of naming conventions. 8-)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:30AM (#277419)

      s/Klein flash/Klein flask

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:56AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:56AM (#277441)

        Disregard that, I suck cocks.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:40AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:40AM (#277485)

          In order to be witty, you have to possess wit.
          You're only halfway there.

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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday December 17 2015, @09:45AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Thursday December 17 2015, @09:45AM (#277616) Journal

    Not to mention the rendering engine has been released under a FOSS license [osnews.com] so unlike the past engines where it was a black box anybody can download, inspect, and use the engine as they see fit.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:09AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:09AM (#277620) Journal
      The link and you text don't match. The link says that they're open sourcing the JavaScript engine, not the rendering engine.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:48PM (#277668)
    Which is it, "clean break" or "reuses old IE code?" It is just a rebranded software with some older "features" dropped. With some new code, naturally.