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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: 2) by arslan on Thursday December 17 2015, @02:00AM

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday December 17 2015, @02:00AM (#277442)

    Eh? Isn't anything from IE9 and below gonna be unsupported come January [microsoft.com]?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:24AM (#277474)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:58AM (#277492)

      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

        by isostatic (365) on Thursday December 17 2015, @08:18PM (#277867) Journal

        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

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @11:17PM (#277980)

          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_