It was the fourth consecutive monthly decline of more than a point for Microsoft, but Explorer and Edge combined still account for more than 40% of browsers in use.
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Web browser security is a major concern – with plenty of infections occurring due to careless surfing or vulnerabilities in add-ons – so it’s not surprising to hear that Microsoft has been boasting because it believes the new Edge browser is doing particularly well on this front.
Google Chrome has been steadily increasing its browser market share while Microsoft has been losing its.
When the Start menu was removed by Microsoft with Windows 8, it resulted to controversy.
“This will enable OEM/ODMs (original design manufacturers) to move between Windows 10 IoT Core and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise without the need to maintain a separate firmware image for their devices”, Brett Bentsen, partner group program manager for Windows IoT at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. As the users dismiss notifications it will be erased both from the desktop and the smartphone. In particular, the browser doesn’t fully support extensions, making it much less functional than Chrome.
Windows 10’s Start menu may show the All Apps list by default following the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer, according to a sneak peek from Microsoft.
Xamarin’s cross-platform cabilities allow developers to build one codebase in C# that can be carried to native mobile apps targeting the iOS, Android and Windows platforms.
Three extensions were offered for testing, including Microsoft Translator with more than 50 languages, the Reddit enhancement suite, and Mouse Gestures.
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As WinBeta reports, at the Edge Summit, Redmond claimed that in its first year of existence, the browser hasn’t suffered from any zero-day exploits, and indeed there are no known exploits in the wild which are actively targeting Edge. Deals have been struck with governments and other big businesses to keep supporting older versions for some years to come, so IE isn’t going to disappear completely any time soon, but the software’s best days are most definitely long gone. As far as iPhone is concerned, “Microsoft is looking into ways of implementing these features ” .
