for a long time Microsoft's veneer excuse me venerable Internet Explorer
was a lot like the cheeseburger on the menu at your local Chinese joint it was
always just kind of there even though nearly everyone opted for Chrome Firefox
or kungpow chicken instead and could you really blame them most popular
alternatives to iie offered faster performance better compatibility and
security and more useful features that left Internet Explorer in the dust so
after seeing ie's usage share drw po off
for 12 straight years Microsoft decided
it was time to abandon ship and build an entirely different browser called Edge
and even though the edge logo is suspiciously similar to that Infamous e
Microsoft has promised a faster browsing experience behind the scenes that plays
nicely with modern websites but talk is cheap how is Microsoft going to deliver
on its assurances of a better browser well similarly to how a game uses a
rendering engine to make pretty pictures appear on your screen browsers use their
own rendering engines to show you coherent web pages instead of a wall of
garbled junk and Microsoft has developed an allnew engine called Edge HTML which
was originally developed from ie's Trident engine but has the old IE code
removed which Microsoft says will make modern web pages load faster and more
accurately and speaking of making things faster Edge also no longer supports
ActiveX or brows helper objects those old Internet Explorer plugins that were
notorious for being super susceptible to malware that could slow down your PC
direct you to malicious websites or worse but not all the improvements are
just behind the scenes stuff Edge also
has a new user interface that promises to be less clunky than IE for starters
Microsoft has finally decided it's not a
good idea to crowd together browser tabs and the address bar on the same line and
has reserved the entire top of the screen for tabs like other modern
browsers Edge has also moved to a single menu scheme for changing options instead
of the messy internet options box that has been with us since freaking Windows
95 and I guess well that's all finding Dandy Linus hold on a second it sounds
like Edge is purely playing catchup with the other browsers here does it actually
offer anything that I won't get with chrome or Firefox as a matter of fact
yes Edge is trying to set itself apart
from its competitors by offering additional functionality without the
need for thirdparty browser extensions something that let's face it most
non-power users are not really using so
namely you can annotate and mark up web pages just by clicking a button at the
top of the screen then you can share them or save them to one note pretty
cool stuff and additionally Edge features integration with Cortana the
new Windows 10 personal assistant making it easy to quickly look up information
about any topic you see on a web page uh use voice controls or even get things
like driving directions or dinner reservations but despite all these
improvements is Edge really ready for Prime Time although the new rendering
engine should certainly deliver better performance our tests have shown it
still legs behind Chrome and Firefox in a number of benchmarks and it still
isn't as compliant with newer web standards like HTML 5 as the competition
and although a simpler UI will be a welcome change for many power users may
find themselves frustrated at the rather lean options in the settings menu I mean
even something as simple as the default download directory cannot be changed
without a registry tweak so let us know in the comments can you live without
right click paste and go and give Edge a chance as long as it means IE is finally
going the way of clippy or are you just going to stick with the other thirdparty
browsers that you already know and love
speaking of sticking with things we know and love we certainly talk about fresh
books a lot on this channel and we're going to do it again today it's designed
for freelance workers or small businesses and it makes invoicing
getting paid and tracking your expenses easier with a simple online tool so all
those little details about you know the hours worked on this job or your cash
flow or other little accounting stuff like that that normally you'd have to
get home at the end of a long day and sit at your computer and work on no no
that's all on your mobile device and it has a bunch of other great features as
as well so you can show the full history of invoices you can check and see if
your client has viewed the invoice and they can even pay you via credit card
through fresh books so if you're Your Own Boss you should be using stuff that
makes you feel like a boss check it out now at freshbooks.com tequ and don't
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