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Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher

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

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Post by Pharylon »

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…

On the other hand, there's no real point in supporting Windows 7 now. It's only two years away from EOL.

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

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Post by pmontra »

BoorishBears wrote: post #18
ekianjo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

I did for a while, Chrome is a resource hog compared to Edge. iirc I stopped using it because of issues with passwords not auto filling consistently (it sounds like a small deal but it gets old having to open a password manager 10 times a day with a 20 something character password)

How about leaving it open, (auto) locking the screen every time you leave the pc? It should be as safe, if you trust the screen locker.

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

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Post by plopz »

randomerr wrote: post #13
d2kx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"On iOS, we are using the WebKit engine, as provided by iOS in the WKWebView control. That means that from a compatibility perspective, Microsoft Edge for iOS should match the version of Safari that is currently available for iOS. On Android, we are using the Blink rendering engine from the Chromium browser project."

So what you really getting is a UI wrapper around the built-in browsers. The only advantage is synced passwords and bookmarks and some Microsoft specific apps.

This is the case with all of the browsers on iOS since Apple doesn't allow other rendering engines in the app store.

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

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Post by sp332 »

dagw wrote: post #19
ekianjo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

I've been using it almost exclusively on my laptop for the past few month as an experiment. And honestly it's a perfectly fine browser that basically just works as well as any other browser. That being said I cannot come up with any good argument why you should switch to using it instead of whatever you are currently using.

Yeah, I've been really impressed with Edge. If I had started using Edge instead of having all my stuff in Firefox, I probably never would have bothered switching.

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

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Post by ygra »

ekianjo wrote: post #44

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.

“Refuse” is a fairly strong word and suggests there is a Linux version available and just withheld. Software and features don't just appear out of nowhere.

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

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Post by sp332 »

Pharylon wrote: post #51
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…

On the other hand, there's no real point in supporting Windows 7 now. It's only two years away from EOL.

Firefox ESR still supports WinXP, and it will be supported until the end of 52ESR which I think is in March.

The point of supporting Win7 is that about 50% of Windows users are still on it. That's not going to change quickly even if support ends. https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-loses-market-share-in-...

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

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Post by intended »

dagw wrote: post #19
ekianjo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

I've been using it almost exclusively on my laptop for the past few month as an experiment. And honestly it's a perfectly fine browser that basically just works as well as any other browser. That being said I cannot come up with any good argument why you should switch to using it instead of whatever you are currently using.

Typing on a surface pro/windows tablet is crap on chrome?

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

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Post by pjmlp »

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?

Yes, specially because it makes better use of my GPU.

So I usually use FF as main browser, Chrome for the developer tools when debugging some nasty issue and Edge when doing graphics intense work like watching videos.

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