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Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

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Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#31

He was presenting Azure and the browser was enable to parse a XmlHttpRequest. It could be an error on the browser or on the server side application. Because he is on the server side team he blamed the browser. Rule #1 of pointing fingers: it's always someone else's fault.

From the comments on the article, it could also have been a beta version of Edge

Which is kinda odd to use on a device for presentations, no?

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#32
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nobody is taking them seriously Because it's 2017 and I'm STILL having to write workarounds for IE.

But IE is not Edge.

Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#33
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a good bit ludicrous that they are providing Edge for IOS / Android but not for previous versions of Windows.

My life as a programmer would be better if I didn't have to support IE11 / Windows 7, but instead of doing that, they spent some time getting it running where no one wants it.

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#35

From the presenter's comments, it sounds like a GPO locked down Edge. In that context, it makes sense to immediately install another browser and Chrome is the market leader.

If GPO is locking down Edge, but not preventing you from installing another browser, it's a bad GPO...

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If only Microsoft lets older Windows to install Edge. Yet they are stuck with IE. The only way to use Edge is to upgrade to Windows 10.

IIRC it's because the APIs that Edge uses are only in 10.

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#38
post #3

It’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…

I would take them significantly more seriously if they open sourced the browser. All of their accomplishments may be impressive but it's a moot point if they're all being kept to themselves.

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#39
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a good bit ludicrous that they are providing Edge for IOS / Android but not for previous versions of Windows. My life as a programmer would be better if I didn't have to support IE11 / Windows 7, but instead of doing that, they spent some time getting it running where no one wants it.

Edge for android and iOS use the built-in rendering engines on each platform.

Edge for Android is using Blink, Edge for iOS is using Webkit.

They could give you "Edge for windows 7" but it wouldn't be the same rendering engine from Edge on windows 10.

Re: Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

#40
post #3

It’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

Chrome and Firefox run on Mac and various unices. Edge is just a pain to take seriously for me, a « various unices » user.

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