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Microsoft Edge Finally Supports Adblock and Adblock Plus
Edge is not exactly a new browser anymore, and it’s true that it has received quite a few improvements from Microsoft since its initial launch. Snappy and minimalistic, Edge is definitely an improvement when compared to the notoriously slow Internet Explorer, but its lack of extension support has discouraged many…
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Guess How Much Windows 10 Will Be After July 29th
For a long time now, Microsoft have offered an upgrade to the new Windows 10 operating system free of charge to any users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. After the first anniversary of Window’s 10’s release on July 29th, all upgrades to the latest version of Windows will cease…
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Cortana Search Box Will Now Only Use Bing and Edge
In recent years, Microsoft has been less than subtle with the ways they push their products onto people. From the auto installation of windows 10 components to the annoying little popup reminding you to constantly update to the new OS. The next step would seem to affect those who actually use Windows…
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Microsoft Shows How Easily Chrome Extensions Can Be Added to Edge
Last month, Microsoft revealed that they had been working on the ability for their struggling Edge web browser to support the vast array of extensions that are available for Google’s Chrome. At an Edge developer summit earlier this week, Microsoft showed off just how far this technology had come already,…
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Microsoft’s Edge Browser to Feature Ad Blocking
Microsoft is actively trying to make Edge a better browser with each update, and it looks like the next major improvement for this admittedly quick browser concerns ad blockers. During a recent presentation of Build 2016, a certain slide showed that Microsoft plans to “build ad blocking features into the browser,”…
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Microsoft to Offer Tool for Porting Chrome Extensions to Edge
With the release of their new operating system, Windows 10, Microsoft has been keen on getting users to use their new software. Not just their operating system is new, though, with Edge replacing the demonised Internet explorer. One thing that has kept users from accepting and using the new browser…
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Microsoft Wants to Make Edge Support Chrome Extensions
Microsoft’s Edge browser is definitely an improvement when compared to the old Internet Explorer, but it still not as popular in the average user’s eye as Chrome and Firefox, mainly because it doesn’t support as many extensions. It’s true that Edge has recently received its first batch of extensions, but…
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Microsoft’s Edge to Test Browser Extensions
In this day and age, people enjoy customizing their experience with everything. The same goes for their experience when browsing online and with the likes of Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome offering countless extensions Microsoft’s latest browser, Edge, seems to be lacking the feature. That looks to change with Microsoft looking to…
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Gaming in Your Browser is About to Get Interesting With WebAssembly
WebAssembly, it may be something that most of you have never really heard of, but it’s going to have a huge impact on the way we use or web browsers. WebAssembly is a compiling technology, which is capable of bringing browser output closer to that of native machine code; not…
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Edge and Internet Explorer Browsers Lose Ground to Make Way for Google
It’s no big secret that Microsoft’s browsers are often swapped for offerings from Mozilla and Google, but it looks like their popularity has declined quite a bit last month, at least according to a recent report by Computerworld. Apparently, Edge and Internet Explorer accounted for 44.8% of all browsers used to reach…
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Microsoft Edge Browser is Storing Private Browsing Data
With the jump to Windows 10, Microsoft also hoped to say goodbye to their old Internet Explorer browser, one often berated by the tech savvy. In Edge, they included many features that were already staples among rival browsers, one such feature being the InPrivate browsing mode. It has come to…
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End of Life for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 on Tuesday
Internet Explorer has few fans amongst the tech community, with it’s blatant disregard for web standards and numerous security and privacy issues over the years. It has been some time in the works, but Microsoft has announced that the ‘end of life‘ of these older versions of their web browser…
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Google’s VP9 Codec is Coming to Microsoft Edge
Microsoft is officially incorporating WebM/VP9 support into its Windows 10-exclusive, Edge browser to produce the smoothest video streaming functionality available today. The open-source VP9 codec compresses video streams at a lower bit-rate whilst maintaining the source’s visual clarity. As a result, this method is useful for 4K streaming and reducing bandwidth demands. According to Microsoft, their…
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Microsoft Discouraging Users From Downloading Competing Browsers
Microsoft is aggressively pushing the Edge browser in Windows 10 and trying to prevent users from downloading an alternative such as Chrome, Firefox or Opera. By default, Windows 10 only includes Microsoft products such as Edge or Internet Explorer 11 and you have to use Bing to procure a different…
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Internet Explorer Celebrates Its 20th Birthday
The Internet Explorer isn’t the youngest application anymore, in fact, it could celebrate its 20th birthday yesterday. That’s quite a milestone and while it has been discontinued and replaced by the new Edge browser (formerly known as Spartan), it will undoubtedly be around for many more years on systems that…
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