Microsoft’s Edge web browser takes another step away from Internet Explorer with its new logo. Microsoft’s latest browser will be releasing on January 15th, with its logo that will put it more in line with the direction of the Microsoft Office suite of programs.
With its new logo, Microsoft aims to make Edge more desirable with a suite of additional new features aimed at corporations. For instance, the update will allow people to use the address bar to do things like define company acronyms and search for floor plans and will be usable on systems running macOS, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. This new version is based on a Google-developed open-sourced web browser called Chromium, which is the same technology used in Google’s Chrome browser.
Tom Warren of The Verge noted that Microsoft Edge’s new logo is more reminiscent of a wave, rather than the previous one, which harkened back to Internet Explorer’s classic “e” logo. The new design does still contain the letter, but it is more in line with the logos of the latest Microsoft Office applications. Instead of unveiling the new logo themselves, Microsoft lead users to it with a series of mysterious teasers in the form of complex puzzles aimed at the technologically adept. Some of these required users to look through code in search of hidden files that could then be extrapolated and converted to different filetypes. One puzzle in specific required scouring an image for a hidden Obj code that enabled the Edge icon to be rendered as a 3D object.
Microsoft Leans On Nostalgia For Logo Unveil
All of these clues eventually led curious users to a surfing game that unveiled the new logo once it was completed. The game was reminiscent of a skiing game that Microsoft released in 1991, as part of the third installment of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack, called SkiiFree. It was a simple game where players navigated around basic hazards, and Microsoft was possibly referencing it with this Easter egg.
While January 15th is the current release date for the new chromium-based Microsoft Edge, a stable beta version of the browser is currently available on Microsoft’s website. This version will not replace other versions of Edge, though the full update will once the comprehensive program is available for download this January. As said before, this program isn’t the final version. Still, it does have many of the business-oriented applications that this new, Chromium-based version of Edge will have, so those interested can try them out for an early look at the full release.
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Source: The Verge
