I wonder if Microsoft will ever pull a Kindle and rollout custom Android device that replaces Google services and and apps with Microsoft equivalents.
Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
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#22One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!" So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organization…
It’s been two years. And I bet normal everyday users aren’t asking for that.
It's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial IndexedDB implementation, and Edge is still missing features that Chrome and Firefox had 5 years ago.
And I was being facetious, I know I'm not a normal user. Some normal users would like to play a video game I wrote that won't run in Edge due to missing IndexedDB features, though.
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#23"I really want to use Microsoft Edge on my iPhone!"
-No One Ever
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#24Had to happen sooner or later. I just wish Microsoft had not tied Edge so deeply into Windows 10 (did they not learn from doing the same with Internet Explorer?) as at the moment it is limited to updates as part of the OS (Windows Update) and not the Microsoft Store.
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#25One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!" So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organization…
Mozilla is obscenely wealthy as charities go. It must be one of the world's most asset-rich charity in the world. Billions of dollars...
You are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/
Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can apply to that program and get some extra funding?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s been two years. And I bet normal everyday users aren’t asking for that.
Yeah, but I'm willing to bet normal everyday users don't use terms like "browser experience" either. In fact, I'm pretty sure that anyone who understands the concept of different browsers (rather than referring to whatever standard browser they have as "the internet"), uses Edge primarily to download Chrome or Firefox.
I’ve used edge. It’s fine.
If MS had lots of people complaining about sites that didn’t work or said ‘Edge not supported’ to people who went there and that was because the site needed IndexDB I’m sure they would have added it. It clearly isn’t a huge issue for them.
I can see people saying ‘If I use Edge my phone doesn’t sync bookmarks and stuff like Chrome so I use Chrome.’
I don’t think saying things like ‘people only use it to download Chrome’ is helpful. It’s not IE 7. It’s a perfectly fine browser.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s been two years. And I bet normal everyday users aren’t asking for that.
Yeah, but I'm willing to bet normal everyday users don't use terms like "browser experience" either. In fact, I'm pretty sure that anyone who understands the concept of different browsers (rather than referring to whatever standard browser they have as "the internet"), uses Edge primarily to download Chrome or Firefox.
After a Win10 user does that, they will have not one but two unused browsers lingering on their PC (both IE11 and Edge). I name this ship Bloaty McBloatface.
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#28One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!" So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organization…
> most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs Are there really people using Microsoft Edge out there? I mean, because they want to, not because they have to?
Lots of our customers who were previously IE users have become Edge users. Its the new default on PCs
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#29The performance of Edge is comparable to Chrome or Firefox. It is a really great product. The sad part is, that they were keeping it Win10-only for several years. I think, that if they made Edge available for every platform and every OS earlier, they could have 20 - 50 % of the market by now.
The funny part is, that there is NO EDGE FOR WINDOWS. Precisely, Edge is for Windows 10 only, which is the minority of all Windows devices today. There is no Microsoft browser for Windows 7 (by a browser I mean the one that is regularly updated). MS announced the halting of IE development a long time ago.
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#30One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!" So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organization…
> most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs Are there really people using Microsoft Edge out there? I mean, because they want to, not because they have to?
My Windows dev friends seem to like it. If you're into the Microsoft ecosystem, it seems reasonable.
I tried it out as an alternative to IE 11 at work (where I run Windows to do CAD and industrial automation stuff), but I returned to IE out of habit. Either browser seems to work fine, though there are occasional issues with newly-designed sites and apps, I think because they tend to be designed and tested on Chrome/Mac.