Edge, therefore, throws out a lot of garbage from the past such as ActiveX and VBScript, hence its dev nickname ‘Spartan’. Edge browserĪlthough sharing some elements with IE, the first security advance of Edge is simply that it’s not Internet Explorer, now afflicted with large number of security flaws. This will be FIDO 2.0 compliant so other members off the alliance such as Google could use Passport too. The protocol for authenticating users to their Microsoft, Active Directory or Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) accounts using Hello biometric credentials or a PIN. Requires hardware that many PCs don’t have. In future, users will authenticate themselves in Windows 10 using their fingerprint, face or iris, the benefit for enterprises being that attackers have nothing to steal. One of Windows 10’s ‘core’ security features available across all versions, the twee-sounding Hello promises to abolish passwords forever. Is this because Microsoft has failed to tell its user base or simply doesn’t know? Here we try and untangle a few of the mysteries. But there is still a lot of confusion about some of the next enterprise features the operating system will debut and, in some case, develop further from control already in Windows 7 and 8.

Microsoft has done a superb job of promoting Windows 10 without doing what it did with Windows 8 and just going ‘over the top’.

Windows 7 enterprise features