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The trouble is that most enterprise deployments of Windows haven’t taken advantage of the speed and standards compliance of the latest Internet Explorer release but are instead stuck on an old version, one that’s slow and increasingly unable to keep up with the modern web. The reason is most often compatibility with legacy web apps that typically require Internet Explorer 8 to work properly. The problem is exacerbated by the fast-paced development cycles of competing browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, which in recent years have pushed out automatic updates for their Windows browsers far more frequently than Internet Explorer. In general, that fast update cycle means anyone using Chrome or Firefox has quicker access to features based on the latest web standards. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s overly generous support life cycle has allowed older versions of Internet Explorer to remain in use years longer than is sensible on the fast-changing modern web. As of January 12, 2016, that all came to an end. On that date, Microsoft changed its support life cycle for Internet Explorer. Under the new policy, only the most recent version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates. For the first time, only one version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 11, is officially supported on PCs running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. A feature called Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11, which I discuss later in this chapter, is designed to address compatibility issues in the enterprise. But Internet Explorer isn’t the default web browser for new PCs running Windows 10. That honor goes to the new Microsoft Edge. Enterprises can still choose to make Internet Explorer their default browser across all supported Windows versions, but otherwise Internet Explorer will be relegated to a compatibility role. In the next section, I explain the similarities and differences between the two Windows 10 browsers. Browsing options in Windows 10 The two-browser strategy for Windows 10 isn’t a new idea. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 also included two browsers, one with the conventional Windows desktop interface and the other with a modern, touch-friendly design intended for full-screen use on tablets. Despite the different designs, the two browsers shared a great deal of common code, most notably the Trident rendering engine, which has been at the core of Internet Explorer since its earliest days. Windows 10 also includes two browsers, each with a different design and different methods of user interaction. More importantly, though, Windows 10 includes two different rendering engines: ■■ EdgeHTML (Edgehtml.dll) is the new HTML viewer. Although its starting point was the original Trident engine, it has since diverged from that engine significantly. The new engine deliberately eliminates large chunks of legacy code designed to emulate older Internet Explorer versions, including the versioned document modes that determine how previous versions of Internet Explorer render a page. Although compatibility with standards is an important goal of 78 CHAPTER 6 Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
EdgeHTML, interoperability is even more important: Microsoft says its developers have invested significant effort in EdgeHTML to help developers avoid having to deal with cross-browser inconsistencies. ■■ Trident (Mshtml.dll), the rendering engine that has been part of Internet Explorer for two decades, will continue to be available as a stable, consistent web platform for use in Internet Explorer 11. Trident will continue to receive security and compatibility updates for all supported Windows platforms, including Windows 10. It will not, however, add new features or support for additional web standards; those development efforts are reserved exclusively for the new rendering engine and Microsoft Edge. Note For a detailed list of the status of web-standards support in both rendering engines, see https://status.modern.ie. Standards that are implemented only in EdgeHTML are currently identified as Preview Release. With a few exceptions, standards that are listed as Under Consideration or In Development (Touch Events, for example) will be available only in EdgeHTML. For a graphic illustration of the common code that underlies the two browsers, check the properties for each file (as found in C:\Windows\System32). Note that the Product Version is identical for each, as shown here. Even by the accelerated standards of Windows 10 development, Microsoft Edge is developing at a rapid pace. It was a relatively late addition to the Windows 10 Technical Preview, showing up under the code name “Project Spartan” in publicly available preview builds some five months after the program began. The first official release of Microsoft Edge coincided with the general availability of Windows 10 in July 2015. In November 2015, Microsoft released a major platform update for Microsoft Edge, bringing the browser to version 25 and the EdgeHTML rendering engine to version 13; this release also adds major improvements to Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge. Version information is available under the Settings menu in Microsoft Edge. CHAPTER 6 Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 79
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Introducing Windows 10 for IT Profe
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Contents Introduction .............
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Chapter 6 Microsoft Edge and Intern
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Chapter 15 What’s new in Group Po
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access to Windows 10 at no cost. Ev
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CHAPTER 1 An overview of Windows 10
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Update, with additional reliability
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FIGURE 1-3 The Windows 10 Start men
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FIGURE 1-5 Connecting accounts to t
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FIGURE 1-7 The Windows Store offers
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personal tasks with as little frict
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kernel-mode drivers are allowed to
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Deployment and manageability Deploy
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touch-enabled devices. Features suc
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An overview of the new Windows user
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FIGURE 2-3 The Settings app is desi
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In general, you’re likely to find
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FIGURE 2-8 You can use this Group P
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Page 44 and 45: FIGURE 2-14 For anyone moving from
Page 46 and 47: FIGURE 2-16 The new, unified OneDri
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Page 50 and 51: FIGURE 3-2 You use the Media Creati
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Page 58 and 59: FIGURE 3-9 Enter your credentials h
Page 60 and 61: FIGURE 3-11 For most personal devic
Page 62 and 63: Deployment scenarios As I mentioned
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Page 66 and 67: In addition, the ADK contains docum
Page 68 and 69: FIGURE 4-5 The Windows Imaging and
Page 70 and 71: Malware and phishing attacks typica
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Page 76 and 77: Device encryption On any device tha
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Page 80 and 81: FIGURE 5-6 When Windows Hello biome
Page 82 and 83: SmartScreen and phishing protection
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Page 86 and 87: FIGURE 5-11 The Feedback & Diagnost
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Page 99 and 100: FIGURE 6-8 Turning on Enterprise Mo
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Page 106 and 107: FIGURE 7-3 The Wi-Fi pane offers a
Page 108 and 109: With Wi-Fi Sense, Microsoft keeps a
Page 110 and 111: Figure 7-6 shows the simple setting
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FIGURE 10-4 Configuring single sign
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FIGURE 10-7 When setting up a PC fo
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FIGURE 10-9 The System, About page
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FIGURE 10-11 Adding a work or schoo
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As the authors of that guide note,
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FIGURE 11-3 The Devices tab of the
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FIGURE 11-5 The adaptive user exper
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A new feature introduced with Windo
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Figure 11-9 shows the process of ad
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Disk Management The most important
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FIGURE 12-3 The Storage interface o
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After you choose a File History dri
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FIGURE 12-7 The Storage Spaces feat
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FIGURE 12-9 Click the Action menu i
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CHAPTER 13 Managing mobile devices
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Configuration Manager is a user-cen
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FIGURE 13-2 Microsoft Intune includ
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Work Folders doesn’t have any fil
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The first public release of Windows
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As with the preview program for des
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and a group of action buttons for q
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FIGURE 14-7 Switching the built-in
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FIGURE 15-1 Use Group Policy to ena
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FIGURE 15-3 On systems running Wind
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FIGURE 15-5 Configuring Enterprise
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FIGURE 15-7 By using Delivery Optim
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