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Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is "Safer"

posted by GreatOutdoors on Sunday November 27 2016, @02:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the of-course-my-software-is-safer dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft has turned on a new set of Windows Tips that inform Chrome and Firefox users on Windows 10 that Edge is a "safer" browser. We reached out to Microsoft to find out how long this latest recommendation has been active. "This wave of Windows Tips for Windows 10 users began in early November," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.

If this sounds familiar, that's because Microsoft turned on similar Windows 10 tips back in July, warning Chrome/Firefox users about battery drain and then recommending Edge instead. Those notifications were on the battery icon in the operating system, while this new one is on the Edge icon:

[...] The battery drain "tip" was timed with Microsoft's battery-savings campaign for Edge, and this security one is no different. NSS Labs compared the security of the three major Windows browsers and unsurprisingly — Microsoft has a long history of asking NSS Labs to do a study in which its browser comes out on top, though it claims this one wasn't commissioned — Edge won in a particular metric. That's where the "It blocks 21% more socially engineered malware" part from the notification comes from.

See a previous related article Here [soylentnews.org]

Would you change your software based on a recommendation like this?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by KiloByte on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:00AM

    by KiloByte (375) on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:00AM (#433582)

    When I'm on Win 10 I use IE, for a better experience.

    Eh? Unless you're a web developer (bless your poor soul...) and thus have to check both, there is only one reason to use IE or Edge more than once: if it crashed or otherwise failed while downloading a real browser.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 27 2016, @09:16AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday November 27 2016, @09:16AM (#433590) Journal

    If you are using a computer that is not your own (e.g. owned by the company you work for), you may not have a choice on which browser you use.

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  • (Score: 1) by SunKis on Monday November 28 2016, @08:37AM

    by SunKis (2973) <mnlistsNO@SPAMfrimail.net> on Monday November 28 2016, @08:37AM (#433947)

    Try this:
    Issue a MS code signing certificate from Thawte with anything other than IE on Windows 10.