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Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
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Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
#32I wonder if Microsoft will ever pull a Kindle and rollout custom Android device that replaces Google services and and apps with Microsoft equivalents.
They already tried that with Nokia X.
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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 o…
Yes, it was partially tongue in cheek.
That said, most of those who understand there are multiple browsers likely do so due to a time when, yes, IE was -terrible-...and so all their saved stuff, preferred plugins, etc, are in Firefox or Chrome. So their first act on getting a new computer is to reinstall and sync that stuff. Not "give that new Microsoft browser a spin".
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> 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/M…
Edge's user agent I believe is specifically chosen to look like Chrome to most websites. I believe they have said they had a lot of issues modernizing IE because people's "detect IE" hacks would assume IE still needed those hacks, and it would in fact end up breaking the website when IE improved.
Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
#35I wonder if Microsoft will ever pull a Kindle and rollout custom Android device that replaces Google services and and apps with Microsoft equivalents.
They already sell a Samsung Galaxy S8 "Microsoft Edition" in their stores, which comes with their apps pre-installed. I wouldn't be surprised to see them push that even further.
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#36I struggle to get too excited about Edge on iOS because it's not really Edge is it. It will just be like Firefox which uses the built-in iOS WebKit-based rendering. So it's effectively Safari doing the rendering with some wrappers around it like syncing Windows favourites and sharing open windows with your Windows PC?
Maybe some corporations which have Windows on the desktop, but where most employees use iOS devices on the go, will find some use for this.
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> 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
That's why I mentioned "because they want to", not just because it's installed by default.
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#38if firefox can't do it, there's no way ms can
It’s no different than Chrome or Firefox on iOS. Standard WebKit rendering with an MS GUI and syncing features to feel more like edge and integrate with the rest of their stuff better. Sounds like it’s the same on Android too (only using Chromium).
Chrome on iOS is starting to diverge from Safari, sorta: they inject a bunch of JS to each page to essentially polyfill a bunch of stuff that iOS doesn't provide.
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#39One 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?
On my pc its performance is great. I’d use it if it had more extensions.
Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
#40I struggle to get too excited about Edge on iOS because it's not really Edge is it. It will just be like Firefox which uses the built-in iOS WebKit-based rendering. So it's effectively Safari doing the rendering with some wrappers around it like syncing Windows favourites and sharing open windows with your Windows PC? Maybe some corporations which have Windows on the desktop, but where most employees use iOS devices…
I'm guessing this is the case with Chrome as well?