To be clear, this isn't a product called "Presenter", this is a person who works for Microsoft who switched to Chrome during a presentation. Nothing to see here.
Nothing to see? Rather embarrassing and does not speak well for Edge?
Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
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#12It’s exactly this attitude of just get it done that has reignited Microsoft. They probably get flack for this, but it shows they’re focused more on results.
A lot of people in tech (myself included) would benefit greatly from this attitude. How many people get caught up arguing over minutia in tech, such as which distro to use, or which editor to use, or which way to do something when all options are perfectly fine?
I'm not saying cut corners, but instead keep your focus on what's important.
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#13It’s exactly this attitude of just get it done that has reignited Microsoft. They probably get flack for this, but it shows they’re focused more on results.
I've talked to some people on the team who works on Edge, and they are a fantastic group of people.
They know they are in an uphill battle, and everyone is writing them off, but they are doing damn good work.
Edge's performance is getting leaps and bounds faster every update, they are doing incredible things for battery life on many devices, they are catching up to google for web API support, and nobody is taking them seriously.
I know nothing about what it's like to work at microsoft, but whatever they are doing with the Edge team is working. They know their product isn't perfect (what is?), and they are just trying their damn hardest to make it better.
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#14To be clear, this isn't a product called "Presenter", this is a person who works for Microsoft who switched to Chrome during a presentation. Nothing to see here.
It's a little embarrassing though. Had they at least chosen Firefox which isn't a major competitor of theirs across multiple markets, it wouldn't be nearly as bad.
Why didn't he use firefox?
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#15It’s exactly this attitude of just get it done that has reignited Microsoft. They probably get flack for this, but it shows they’re focused more on results.
I've talked to some people on the team who works on Edge, and they are a fantastic group of people. They know they are in an uphill battle, and everyone is writing them off, but they are doing damn good work. Edge's performance is getting leaps and bounds faster every update, they are doing incredible things for battery life on many devices, they are catching up to google for web API support, and nobody is taking the…
> nobody is taking them seriously
Because it's 2017 and I'm STILL having to write workarounds for IE.
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#16To be clear, this isn't a product called "Presenter", this is a person who works for Microsoft who switched to Chrome during a presentation. Nothing to see here.
Nothing to see? Rather embarrassing and does not speak well for Edge?
Or reflects maturity... it's a bit embarrassing that Edge doesn't work, but it would be 100x as embarrassing if they let a problem with Edge interfere with other parts of the business just because they want to use 100% Microsoft stuff. It's a good change from the Microsoft we knew in the 1990s and 2000s, which would have made their web apps with DHTML, ActiveX, or Silverlight. Sure, DHTML is now just "the way things are done" (and not even called DHTML any more) but at the time it was IE's quirky way of making interactive web pages.
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#17It’s exactly this attitude of just get it done that has reignited Microsoft. They probably get flack for this, but it shows they’re focused more on results.
I've talked to some people on the team who works on Edge, and they are a fantastic group of people. They know they are in an uphill battle, and everyone is writing them off, but they are doing damn good work. Edge's performance is getting leaps and bounds faster every update, they are doing incredible things for battery life on many devices, they are catching up to google for web API support, and nobody is taking the…
Edge for Android and iOS is an interesting move: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/05/annou...
I like the role reversal where an MS browser on a Google OS might have merit...like being able to run ad blocking extensions.
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#18It’s exactly this attitude of just get it done that has reignited Microsoft. They probably get flack for this, but it shows they’re focused more on results.
A lot of people in tech (myself included) would benefit greatly from this attitude. How many people get caught up arguing over minutia in tech, such as which distro to use, or which editor to use, or which way to do something when all options are perfectly fine? I'm not saying cut corners, but instead keep your focus on what's important.
I think there's a massive problem in recent times of an over-zealous focus on procedures and the "how" of a particular process. I think process-driven management results in micro-managing tyrants, over-stressed, over-worked employees, poor efficiency, and poor results.
We need to focus on results. Who cares about the process, as long as it works, and the people doing it are happy?
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#19I wish I could give up on Edge, but my end users won't let me.
> I wish I could give up on Edge
Why?
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#20It’s exactly this attitude of just get it done that has reignited Microsoft. They probably get flack for this, but it shows they’re focused more on results.
Maybe from a tech perspective yes. From a marketing and PR perspective this was a disaster of epic proportions.