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Steve Ballmer’s public shrug at a browser-based future captured a defining tension in 2009: a veteran platform company defending a proven stack while a new generation of devices and distribution models rewired how software is created, delivered, and monetized. The question then — whether a...

Microsoft has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and...

Microsoft’s quiet entry on the Windows deprecation list this summer signals a decisive end to another generation of web integration in the OS: Legacy Web View, EdgeHTML-based web apps, legacy PWAs, and the EdgeHTML DevTools are now officially deprecated, and developers are being pushed toward...

Last year, the Compat 2021 effort made tangible progress on improving five of the top pain points for web developers. Microsoft, in collaboration with Google and Igalia, contributed a rewrite of the CSS Grid module in Blink, along with bug fixes for CSS Transforms. Representatives from Apple...

Editor’s note: This continues the series we began last week, highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. As the web platform evolves, the line between web and application developers continues to blur. It’s common now for a web site to be more like a web...

Over the past several months, we have made numerous improvements to the Microsoft Edge rendering engine (Microsoft EdgeHTML), focusing on interoperability with modern browsers and compliance with new and emerging standards. In addition to powering Microsoft Edge, EdgeHTML is also available for...

We first launched the Internet Explorer Test Drive site Link Removed during the Internet Explorer 9 Preview and regularly added demos through IE10 and IE11 development as a way to help web developers get hands-on with new features and performance improvements that were being added to the...

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) 3 for IIS is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to application servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms. This version includes ARR 3.0 and its dependecies, so that it provides a single step...

A couple of months back, we Link Removed that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js Link Removed one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Link Removed on UserVoice since we launched it Link Removed. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider...

Hello, Today we published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web platforms industry-wide. We are not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability, which affects all supported versions...

Web Camp in Belgium Opening Keynote: What's new in the Microsoft Web Platform by Scott Hanselman Link Removed Link Removed