Not the chromium based Edge, the one that launched with windows 10 first day
What makes me curious is why they killed this one, but not internet explorer, as you can still open it up right now in your PC
Windows 7 is dead and no one ever uses Windows 8.1, why isn’t internet explorer retired yet
I’d bet IE is still clinging on because of internal enterprise web apps that companies in sectors not directly related to technology can’t be arsed to rewrite into something more modern. Considering that COBOL programs still serve as pillars for some businesses, IE, ActiveX, etc will probably continue to exist in some form for at least another decade or two, even if it’s running in a virtual machine.
To echo off this, I HAVE to use MSIE for certain workloads for my work. Some things like legacy MS CRM and some other stuff just doesn’t work in chrome correctly.
But then some apps need chrome to work, so I use both for different things.
Ugh that sucks. Do you use something like an XP VM or run IE directly?
Directly on local machines. It’s government stuff so a lot of things are ancient.
Some things will run on chrome, but they behave really weird
This right here. Luckily I only need it for 1 thing, but it’s still annoying and Adobe Reader doesn’t like it anymore.
Yeah, same. Also use one Citrix app that if you change ui scale in w10 it just nopes the F out.
Love it
This has turned into an old work software that makes you shake your head thread
Jesus I can’t believe someone is still using COBOL. That mess was ancient when I was in college in the mid 90’s.
I am betting there are still hooks into the OS with i.E so they just can’t kill it like that.
ive been trying to get off chrome but its hard. I just love the integration a lot. But well the memory leaks suck and i get more viruses on the thing, its at a point that i get one every time i just open the thing and nothing fixes it lol.
opera works great with video but but seems to have issues with some websites. I also dont know if it has cross pc intergration or not, if it did i’d probably use this and brave more tbh.
Edge overall has been a close 2nd of mine. has the multi pc integration, but like opera it seems to have issue with some websites. amazon prime being a big one for me, which using the browser wont work on 3 pcs for me.
Where have you been visiting that you are getting viruses?
tbh i wanted to try some adobe stuff out being cheap. paid badly for it as someone hacked my ebay and bought 4 iphones as they put a sneaky thing on my browser pretending to be the legit site when i visited thsoe places. . Learned my lesson there with pirating.
Even so, for some reason after all that, this pc has never been the same. thats even after many wipes and reformats. I more or less just game on it now. 
You need an anti-virus, something that isn’t free or with store bought cracked codes. Also Microsoft Windows Defender isn’t that great, the company I works for uses that as their AV solution and it’s horribad.
Doesn’t that somewhat depend on one’s intuitive sense for digital danger and site browsing/software installation habits?
I stopped installing third party AV years ago because almost systematically AV software turns into malware itself, doing things like silently enabling VPNs, breaking SSL, making removal nigh impossible, and nagging users into resubscribing. It also tends to come with a chunky performance hit.
Granted, Windows isn’t my daily driver OS but I’ve been able to get along just fine on my Windows boxes with just uBlock Origin in my browser, Windows Defender, and common sense.
Which is one of the main reasons why Viruses exist today is many computer users don’t have any, like author of the post above me.
Yes legacy MS Edge yes but the NEW version is a replacement for the Legacy AND MSIE.
IF you have a government computer you probably can’t install extra stuff anyway but I can tell you my company has the same ‘policy’ but after testing we found that the NEW Edge works great even with ‘legacy’ stuff.
If you remember COBOL then you will probably remember dial-up Bulletin boards… where we had to login to get community email and message boards…
Anyway there was one BB back in the day a programmer was a Visual Basic and COBOL expert… he SWORE that on any given day Visual Basic as the front end for a COBOL program was faster than ANY C++ or any other language…
So you may be surprise people USE COBOL I went to Devry in early 90’s that was the REQUIREMENT to learn COBOL. I liked it… but after I visited that guys BB he had written hundreds of his own apps with VB \ COBOL to prove his point.
He had good stuff… This is old I know but COBOL is the shiznit… just saying. IT’s HIGHLY underrated.
What’s even funnier is human error is 10 times more likely to cause damage than ANY virus . . . .
Oh I didn’t mind it, just didn’t know anyone was still using it. It was pretty much considered obsolete even back then.