For Windows 10 users, they have already realized the new browser that is the Microsoft Edge which was released recently. others are still using Internet Explorer on their computers, which should already be outdated by browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.
But the key question is, why does Microsoft have two browsers?
The problem started when many developers started creating Wesites adapted to Internet Explorer 6. For a long time this was not a problem, since this was the browser on most computers. Problems started to appear when the Internet Explorer market share started to drop, due to the emergence of new browsers (such as Firefox and later Google Chrome).
Starting with Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft began to follow the standards established by W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium is the leading standardization organization on the World Wide Web). This allowed each version of Internet Explorer to bring innovations while maintaining compatibility with the legacy. This strategy was the only one found at the time but it became a problem over time as many developers were forced to test their websites on all versions of Internet Explorer to ensure that there were no problems.
This process followed up Internet Explorer 11 and created an unsustainable situation for Microsoft and developers, who needed to maintain an extremely complex code base so that their Websites could work on all versions of Internet Explorer, since not all users updated your browsers.
With these problems that Internet Explorer used to experience, that's how Microsoft decided to create a new browser that was called Project Spartan during its development and that it would become the Edge.
Technically speaking Edge is a copy of the Internet Explorer 11 source code, as Microsoft gradually phased out all the code that existed just to preserve compatibility and then went on to implement the latest HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 standards. for this reason, Edge can access the vast majority of modern websites in the same way as Chrome.
With the arrival of Microsoft Edge Microsoft could not abandon Internet Explorer from hand to leg because this would cause a major problem for the various companies that have intranet sites created 5, 10 or 15 years ago. Many of these sites use technologies such as ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) and therefore require browsers used by their users to support these technologies.
That's why Microsoft has two Browsers:
- IE11 continues to support Document Modes and extension / plug-in technologies (such as ActiveX, BHOs and others) that are still part of the enterprise environment around the world. Unfortunately it will not receive feature innovations but will continue to receive security updates for as long as the operating system is supported.
- Already Edge is a browser that can be enhanced and receive innovations at a much faster pace, which will allow Microsoft to implement the W3C standards with much more agility.
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