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Not a complete rewrite; they just deleted zillions of lines of legacy support code and then worked on HTML5 support (much better than IE11 but still only on par with FF/Chrome from 2013) and performance where they're actually competitive on most major web benchmarks now.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No. IE11 is still around - 11.0.10240.16384 on my PC.
And no. But I haven't used it for anything other than making sure my sites work.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: No. IE11 is still around - 11.0.10240.16384
What? I thought that was the thing...that IE was dead on Windows 10?
I thought it was all about Edge, but now it seems like IE 11 is there or something and no one is mentioning Edge. Microsoft is supposed to be so great at Marketing and they always mess this stuff up.
Color me, totally confused by the Microsoft-Hype-Machine. 
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newton.saber wrote: What? I thought that was the thing...that IE was dead on Windows 10?
It will be dead eventually. But they need it to be there for some time for backward compatibility. E.g., Edge does not support Flash and Silverlight.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Edge does not support Flash and Silverlight.
That is hilarious. That is the huge innovation that Edge brings...No Silverlight, No Flash.
Wow, how did they think of such amazing technological advancement as "removing plugins..."? Oohh, ahhhhh..
No wonder Microsoft is a Innovation Leader. hahahahahaha < insert maniacal laughter here >
Hilarious.
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This is by design. The other browsers are moving in that direction too. The consensus is to kill plugins. Chrome has just dropped Silverlight I believe.
Kevin
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Oh, I know. I totally and completely agree with getting rid of plugins.
The point is that Microsoft's Shiny New Browser, Edge basically offers nothing innovative or wonderful except the __removal of functionality__. Now that's innovative.
Microsoft Mid-level Manager: We need ideas. We've got to do something big and innovative on this new browser thingy.
Microsoft Creative Consultant: How about the icon, we could do something amazing with the icon. (see the icon is only slightly different from IE and it's a deletion of a small portion of the IE icon)
Microsoft Mid-level Manager: What else you got?
Microsoft Creative Consultant: Remove Flash and Silverlight.
Microsoft Mid-level Manager: Genius!! You've earned every penny of that $10 million consultant fee.
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newton.saber wrote: he point is that Microsoft's Shiny New Browser, Edge basically offers nothing innovative or wonderful except the removal of functionality. Now that's innovative.
I've yet to use Edge and tbh I knew it would be too primitive to be my primary browser. But when Chrome first appeared it too was bare bones and "innovative." The innovation was (allegedly) speed and being bare bones!
Kevin
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Edge has flash baked in the same way Chrome does.
http://dev.modern.ie/platform/faq/flash[^]
Quote: Yes, Adobe Flash is supported as a built-in feature of Microsoft Edge. We continue to work closely in partnership with Adobe to provide this version of Flash, which we support and service via Windows Update.
It is blessedly free of SilverBlight. That does make me wonder if it's installed in the OS by default for use in IE/3rd party browsers or not.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's the default browser.
You have to search to find IE
It is a little buggy ... but it is also quite quick and responsive
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No, both IE and Edge are installed with Windows 10.
But I'm not sure if it's a clever ploy[^] to confuse users... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 4-Aug-15 3:14am.
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I used it to install Chrome (obviously)
As it's a development laptop I'll use it to check any web applications I build, but I don't intend using it for general browsing.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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newton.saber wrote: Is IE gone in windows 10?
If you need it, IE11 is still included in Windows 10 under its usual folder (C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer, or C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer if you insist on the 32-bit version).
I'd use Edge, but not until I can figure out how to launch it by default in its InPrivate mode. You can do that with IE by changing its shortcut to include "-private" at the end of the command line, but I haven't quite yet figured out how to do that with Edge.
(Yes, I know you can use "New InPrivate Window" from its "..." menu after it's launched, but I want to launch it, by default, in that mode already)
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Great info. Thanks for the input.
This has been a great thread for information on Windows 10. I'm glad the community has added so much.
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Some chump named Steven Griffith just started out where I work, in another department.
I'm not sure why, but I would kina like to meet him.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Anton Lavey: ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God"
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Heard that a famous philosopher (don't remember who) has said: "If an ant were to think of God, it would think of a very big ant".
Similarly, the concept of God conceived by man.
Note: I am a believer in God, all the Gods in all temples around; and also the 330 million demigods in the Hindu pantheon.
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Then an ant god would be a gi ant.
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No, it would be transcend-ant!
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Did Noah keep his bees in the ark hives?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I just wonder why the bastard saved the mosquitos.
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