Windows 10 will soon run Edge in a virtual machine to keep you safe

[Chiefcrowe]

http://arstechnica.com/information-...n-edge-in-a-virtual-machine-to-keep-you-safe/

 

[Dahak]

A quick explanation

Called Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge, the new capability builds on the virtual machine-based security that was first introduced last summer in Windows 10. Windows 10's Virtualization Based Security (VBS) uses small virtual machines and the Hyper-V hypervisor to isolate certain critical data and processes from the rest of the system......

In its first iteration, Application Guard will only be available for Edge. Microsoft won't provide an API or let other applications use it. As with other VBS features, Application Guard will also only be available to users of Windows 10 Enterprise, with administrative control through group policies.

But its only available for the Enterprise edition of Windows 10

 

[luv2liv]

i have been using Browser in the Box on win7. https://www.sirrix.com/content/pages/BitBox_en.htm
same thing right?

 

[Rifter]

there are people that actually use this crap edge browser? i think it lasted about 20 seconds before i installed firefox and chrome.

 

[nerp]

Edge has improved. It's not bad. I've left it as the default browser for now and use google only really when I need to work in a CMS. For regular browsing edge is perfectly fine, faster than chrome and has better text rendering and scrolling. On my laptop it also still uses significantly less battery.

The main thing keeping me from abandoning Chrome fully is its ability to recover data entered into a form or CMS field if the browser crashes, you accidentally close the window or go back or forward. I've lost work thanks to Edge having empty forms when you go back. The worst is when it freezes right when you click the "post" button and the post fails and the page no longer functions. In Chrome, if you go back or foward, just go back to where you go and your text is all there.

 

[IGBT]

Edge has improved. It's not bad. I've left it as the default browser for now and use google only really when I need to work in a CMS. For regular browsing edge is perfectly fine, faster than chrome and has better text rendering and scrolling. On my laptop it also still uses significantly less battery.

The main thing keeping me from abandoning Chrome fully is its ability to recover data entered into a form or CMS field if the browser crashes, you accidentally close the window or go back or forward. I've lost work thanks to Edge having empty forms when you go back. The worst is when it freezes right when you click the "post" button and the post fails and the page no longer functions. In Chrome, if you go back or foward, just go back to where you go and your text is all there.

..is there any way to give it a "classic" appearance similar to firefox??

 

[sweenish]

there are people that actually use this crap edge browser? i think it lasted about 20 seconds before i installed firefox and chrome.

Look at you, so with it.

 

[mikeymikec]

there are people that actually use this crap edge browser? i think it lasted about 20 seconds before i installed firefox and chrome.

I am intrigued by the idea that you performed a definitive, in-depth investigation of a piece of software in approximately twenty seconds.

 

[TheRyuu]

It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft keeps this as an Enterprise only feature (market segmentation) or if it trickles down to the Pro versions as well (it requires Hyper-V) since it could be useful for security outside of just using it in Edge if they actually provide an API to use it.