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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?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Sunday November 27 2016, @02:09PM
but that doesn't make Edge any less of a hot mess of a UI, it just shows how far the quality has fallen on the other two browsers. I've seen enough at the shop to know FF is a fricking nightmare when it comes to XSS attacks, for just one example you can set up a Yahoo mail account, have it open in a tab and then start surfing dodgy sites and watch as magically the yahoo mail account suddenly starts getting spam and its addressbook is used for spam, and Chrome? Its no different than Norton back in the day, when you have the most popular product it becomes the benchmark the malware guys test against.
The problem with MSFT isn't the security of their browser, its the fact that nobody there knows how to make a UI anymore so you end up with this flat shaded confusing as fuck layout that looks like it was made by an artschool grad trying to show how "cutting edge" he can be instead of asking the simple question "does this UI make it easier to perform the tasks the average person has for it, or is it just irritating?". Even if you ignore the fact that Win 10 is just a spyware platform with an OS tacked on that will thrash the shit out of your SSD/HDD with all its background phoning home the UI is just a disaster, hell I would even argue that Windows 8 had a better UI as at least in certain use cases such as HTPCs and touchscreen laptops it made things easier for basic users but Win 10 is just a trainwreck of UI design and Edge is a perfect example of their lousy new UI philosophy.
So it could have the bestest security in all of history, it really doesn't matter as I have yet to find anybody that has used that browser for any length of time that doesn't end up loathing it because of just how terrible the UI is.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @07:07PM
The one good thing about Windows 10 is that it put an end to the endless ranting about the "Hairyfeet Test" that some racist, former liberal now alt-right guy used to post all over the internets. For this we owe Microsoft! Of course, we also blame Micro$oft for creating Hairyfeet in the first place, so I guess we are even.