Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

IvanK_net wrote: post #29

The performance of Edge is comparable to Chrome or Firefox. It is a really great product. The sad part is, that they were keeping it Win10-only for several years. I think, that if they made Edge available for every platform and every OS earlier, they could have 20 - 50 % of the market by now. The funny part is, that there is NO EDGE FOR WINDOWS. Precisely, Edge is for Windows 10 only, which is the minority of all Win…

There is Edge for Windows. It's called Edge. Windows 10, is believe it or not, Windows. Any computer running Windows 7 or 8.1 can still (yes, it can) be upgraded to Windows 10 for free. So the only Windows PCs which cannot run Edge were those manufactured prior to 2009.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no good reason to be running Windows 7 or 8.1. All of the telemetry anti-features were backported into those versions, Windows 10 is inherently better at security, and trust me, if I can get the legacy software I have running at work running on Windows 10, legacy app issues aren't a problem either.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by merrvk » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

Does it make use edgeHTML or Chakra though?

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by amaks » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:54 PM UTC

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Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

I shall add it's funny they keep saying "Microsoft Loves Linux" but refuses to release any of their major desktop client software for Desktop Linux.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by abiox » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #26

lostcolony wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

it still lags behind in supporting various things. i had hoped edge would show a commitment to features and standards, but alas.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by neonhomer » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #17

dumbmatter wrote: post #6

One 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?

> Are there really people using Microsoft Edge out there? I mean, because they want to, not because they have to?

I have the exact sentiment with Safari. I'm on an Macbook Pro and iPhone and still use Chrome everywhere.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by sergiosgc » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

Installed, got temperature in Farenheit in the weather widget, found no settings to use Celsius, concluded it's not near polished enough.

Back to Google Now Launcher.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:56 PM UTC

satysin wrote: post #24

Had to happen sooner or later. I just wish Microsoft had not tied Edge so deeply into Windows 10 (did they not learn from doing the same with Internet Explorer?) as at the moment it is limited to updates as part of the OS (Windows Update) and not the Microsoft Store.

I believe that is actually changing this month with the release of the Fall Creator's Update. This is very similar to Android, where originally core apps had to be upgraded with the OS, and were later spun out into being updated via the app store.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3193871/microsoft-wind...

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by santoshalper » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

Mobile browsers could use a shakeup, but Edge is not super interesting to me. The Microsoft Launcher (which is implied to just be a re-branded Arrow launcher) on the other hand is fucking great. For me it's been Arrow or Nova for the past few years.

Re: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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Post by mercer » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

jmkni wrote: post #40

planetjones wrote: post #36

I 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?

Indeed it is. Sadly!