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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).
I really really wish Firefox would actually close the tabs when I quit.
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> 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).
Though I admit it seems weird for a browser that's apparently designed for mobile.
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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),…
> Microsoft is trying to address this now with running x86 code on Snapdragons Is this real Windows or a crippled app store only version?
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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).
I really really wish Firefox would actually close the tabs when I quit.
I'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.
> It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer. Sounds like the Nespresso business model too.
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> Microsoft is trying to address this now with running x86 code on Snapdragons Is this real Windows or a crippled app store only version?
It's a better version which has discoverable, current API apps, that don't kill your battery and all update at the same time thanks to an app store.
Honestly, I think if they would just buy Nox (https://www.bignox.com/) and bake it into Windows 10/S as a side channel in the Windows store they would start to control the PC narrative again.
I'm currently on a slick Dell XPS 13, using the linux subsystem _and_ android apps through NOX without issue. This is also my dev machine and I get 9 hours consistently.
having to use a competitor's rendering engine is quite ridiculous
M$ Edge on Android uses WebKit.
Apple, and Google practices as of late do seem sufficiently profit oriented to the point of poor consumer experience. Throw Facebook and Twitter in the mix for good measure. At the very least MS is no longer the only bully in the room....if they are still a bully at all.
I'm not sure I've seen quite as drastic a shift in fundamental thinking from a company as I've seen from Microsoft in recent years (under Nadella).
tl;dr - Any large and diversified (tech) company has so many powerful stakeholders within the company that decisions bubble up which are in the best interest of those stakeholders and their departments, not necessarily the consumer.
The Verge understands Google created this installer app to combat the fake Chrome apps that can be found in the Windows Store, a problem Microsoft has been trying to address for years. It obviously hasn't been trying that hard.
User installs ”Chrome” from Windows Store, gets malware and crap. I’d bet 87% of the users would blame Google, not Microsoft.
I 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…
Good work, but I'm still not going to use it, given I've already had A-grade browsers for many years.