Everyone wants a walled garden for their stuff. So this comes as no surprise. Personally, I struggled for couple of days to get Chrome installed on my Windows 10 laptop. Finally, installed Firefox to avoid Edge.
Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
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Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#22I think Windows 10 S has more to lose than Chrome in this new browser battle. Even on regular Windows 10 people go against every trick Microsoft throws at them to use Chrome rather than Edge (which is kind of a low feature Internet Explorer). If Windows 10 S wants to define itself as the only version of Windows where you will be forced no matter what to use Edge, they will stay in the low single digit market share. T…
> they will stay in the low single digit market share.
After the whole "Windows 10" thing i seriously doubt there is anything they can do that would result in them losing much of a market share.
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#23"Windows Store apps that browse the web must use HTML and JavaScript engines provided by Windows 10"
Why is this restriction allowed? Isn't this a violation of the browser choice consent decree, or has that expired?
Edit: I see this is "Windows S", which inherits from the failed "Windows RT" the attempt to jam everything into the walled garden of the store. This is unlikely to work and I hope it doesn't; only Apple have succeeded in doing this so far, but a world where every application developer has to give 30% to the platform feudal lord and suffer arbitary restrictions on development is going to have a lot less innovation.
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#24I think Windows 10 S has more to lose than Chrome in this new browser battle. Even on regular Windows 10 people go against every trick Microsoft throws at them to use Chrome rather than Edge (which is kind of a low feature Internet Explorer). If Windows 10 S wants to define itself as the only version of Windows where you will be forced no matter what to use Edge, they will stay in the low single digit market share. T…
> Edge (which is kind of a low feature Internet Explorer). I agree with your comment in general, but Edge really is significantly better than IE. It supports most modern web stuff, it's much faster and the UI is pretty nice and clean. Sure, the latter is a matter of taste too but it really beats IE on all fronts. Opinions clearly vary on whether it can compete with the likes of Chrome and Firefox, but it's not a "low…
Edge has ugly font rendering (seems to be common to all Metro apps) and loses all your tabs when you quit (total dealbreaker for me).
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
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Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#26I think Windows 10 S has more to lose than Chrome in this new browser battle. Even on regular Windows 10 people go against every trick Microsoft throws at them to use Chrome rather than Edge (which is kind of a low feature Internet Explorer). If Windows 10 S wants to define itself as the only version of Windows where you will be forced no matter what to use Edge, they will stay in the low single digit market share. T…
> they will stay in the low single digit market share. After the whole "Windows 10" thing i seriously doubt there is anything they can do that would result in them losing much of a market share.
Windows 10 S is competing with Windows 10, so there is a potential for really tiny market share.
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#27I'd like EU court to look into Apple iOS and now MS Windows, Google Chromebooks lock the user into a single source of "apps". It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer.
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#28"Windows Store apps that browse the web must use HTML and JavaScript engines provided by Windows 10" Why is this restriction allowed? Isn't this a violation of the browser choice consent decree, or has that expired? Edit: I see this is "Windows S", which inherits from the failed "Windows RT" the attempt to jam everything into the walled garden of the store. This is unlikely to work and I hope it doesn't; only Apple h…
Windows RT, for the record, was a horrifically missed opportunity for Windows to compete with "low-end" ARM devices.
I use quotes as I much prefer the ARM Chromebooks I've owned over the years to any other computer I've used, regardless of price.
Thin, light, cheap and with battery life for millenia.
Microsoft is trying to address this now with running x86 code on Snapdragons (which may well be too little too late), but at the time it would have been trivial for them to build a basic laptop with a 15" form factor and three full days of battery life. I'd have thrown money at that.
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#29I'd like EU court to look into Apple iOS and now MS Windows, Google Chromebooks lock the user into a single source of "apps". It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer.
To be fair, Chromebooks require a Google account, which I agree should be completely optional for the user.
Beyond that though, there's very little dependence on Google for apps. The web store opens in a browser window and (if someone were to create one) could easily go to a different store.
Likewise, Android-compatible Chromebooks can use Aptoide same as any other compatible Android device (although Android should be looked at too IMHO - I should at least have the option to say "I trust X app store in addition to Google Play" without removing un-named sources protection altogether. Likewise iPhone.).
Re: Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store
#30the title is misleading, it is not even a full installer, it is an app that just redirect you to a download link. google refuses to provide a full Chrome app for the Microsoft Store because it requires browsers to use the built-in HTML and JavaScript engines provided by Windows 10. google agreed to let its ios version of Chrome to use Apple's webkit, but apparently it is not happy to do something similar for Microsof…
Microsoft. They have historically provided a low quality, non-standard rendering and JavaScript experience. That they are trying underhanded means to stop people opting out of that experience is a reveal that the old Microsoft is still there. Apple should not to be emulated on this.
Edge's renderer seems fine? And being improved at a regular pace.