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Internet Explorer lives in Windows 10, but it’s buried deep. If you’re lucky, you’ll never see it when you use Windows 10. Internet Explorer is old and buggy, and Microsoft has stopped developing it. It became a bloated slug with incredibly stupid and infection-prone “features”: ActiveX, COM extensions, custom crap-filled toolbars, and don’t get me started on Silverlight. It deserves to die if only in retaliation for all the infections it’s brought to millions of machines.

In its place, the new, light, standards-happy, fast Microsoft Edge is everything Internet Explorer should have been, without the legacy garbage. Microsoft built Edge from the ground up as a Windows 10 app that runs on the desktop in its own resizable window. It’s a poster boy for the new apps that are coming down the pike. It took Microsoft forever to build, but the final result is well worth the effort.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Edge is still an unfinished work. Few people use it because it lacks many important browser features. The situation’s slowly improving, and Microsoft has just launched a revamped version based on the same rendering engine as Google Chrome. Unfortunately, this new version is not built into Windows 10 yet. You have to download it from www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge. Edge might well be ready for prime time at some point.

If you live in fear of Internet Explorer getting you infected and/or hate the massive patches that used to appear every month, Microsoft Edge will be a refreshing change.