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so I'm talked about the lockscreen the Start screen Cortana there's one other really big feature in Windows 10 that it has relevance to this conversation to all of you as developers and that is project Spartan project Spartan products partner you know I have to admit our PR team has been giving me and us a hard time because they say it's not a great idea to keep saying project Spartan when that's not really the name of the web would you like to hear the name of the new web browser in Windows 10 okay let's run the video Microsoft edge is the browser built for Windows 10 and it'll be available on the widest range of Windows 10 devices and for us the name refers to the idea of being on the edge of consuming and creating it refers to the developer notion of being closest to the modern capabilities of the web and so it is a browser that end-users will think about for getting things done for things like note-taking on the internet for a great way of reading and consuming content and it's a browser that has Cortana built in so it learns the things that you care about and helps you get things done I'm not gonna go show any of that stuff we've shown that before as developers there are a few reasons that you're gonna care about Microsoft edge you're gonna care about the blazing-fast core technology that's inside it and you'll hear more about that in a talk tomorrow you're gonna care that we're writing it as a universal Windows app proving out the platform and you're also gonna care because we're gonna make it help users discover and engage with your apps and your sites so let me come over here and show you some of what we're doing there and I'm gonna come down here to the e icon on the taskbar which now has a completely different and better meaning that it has for a while and open up Microsoft edge now the first thing that I want to show you that's new is the new tab page that we're adding to Microsoft edge today an ie the task of starting a new tab and starting new web browsing happens over a billion times a day so this is a heavily used piece of UI and you'll see here how we're gonna take advantage of Cortana's presence in the browser an understanding of you along with an understanding of value in the ecosystem to give users a great way to start their web browsing experience or to discover other things so you can see of course I can type to enter a web address or do a search up here are my top sites and in some cases there's an app available for these sites in the store so we make that discoverable and available as I scroll down you'll see here's some featured apps that we're showing here's a lot of news stories that are relevant to me in fact my sports favorites that you saw in Cortana and my stock watch list in Cortana those represented right here in the new tab page that's an example of Cortana helping to compose this in a way that's useful to me so that's new tab and we've been testing this a ton and we're optimistic about its opportunity to help people discover and connect with work that you all do on the web and in apps now there's another big thing that we're doing in Microsoft edge that has huge relevance to you and that is enabling users to engage with your sites and give you a shot at starting to write some web code which you may put into an app via Web extensions built into Microsoft edge so I'm gonna show you a couple of web extensions this is HTML and JavaScript like web extensions using web standards that people have been writing for Firefox and Chrome for quite a while we've grabbed a couple of these from chrome with just a few minor modifications and we're lighting them up right in here in Microsoft edge so the first thing how many reddit users do we have yes come on you must be reddit users for those of you who are power reddit users maybe in the some of the other browsers you've tried the reddit enhancement suite which modifies the markup on reddit to make it easier to find images and scroll pages well we've brought that to Microsoft edge as I said with just a few changes so as I scroll down here you'll see the web has been altered via this little paw print here that I can use to expand and then his little pig nose just kills me too as I look at this cute image it's not a cat or a mouse I don't even know and as I scroll down here you'll see the neverending reddit modifies the page to continue to expand it as we go it was virtually no work to take this from the Chrome extension store and run this this is a standards-based HTML and JavaScript just running here as part of an extension now another example which certainly matters in terms of user engagement up here you'll see we've added a Pinterest extension to the browser toolbar and when I click that this is going to interact with the the mark-up on the page to show all of the images that were generated by the red enhancement suite and now I can find tons of things here that are incredibly cute that I might pin to one of the many Pinterest cute animal boards that I and I know all of you keep just for this sort of thing so with projects part with a Microsoft edge and the the new support for these extensions you'll see how we're going to enable people to discover and engage with code that you're propping up on the web and as I said of course you could bring that into an app as well