Microsoft Outlines New Features Coming to Edge Browser Later This Year

[KevinN206]

One thing that really intrigues me is why Microsoft is fighting so much to keep their own browser? They killed their own IE, made the ugliest app icon I have ever seen, adopted Google's Chrome doing every single bit they can just to say we have our own browser. Why?

On top of it all, it really surprises me how many are willing to sell their privacy away to use Edge or Chrome meanwhile you have Brave Browser which is open source and is near 100% the same if not more not to mention FireFox too. Brand names are really too powerful.

Microsoft Edge is based on open source Chromium. And of course added MS stuffs into it.

 

[Glenny2lappies]

Struggling to understand why people would opt for Edge, from the people that brought the horror of Internet Exploder and held back the internet by years. Mind you, lots of people earned a small fortune from fixing this.

On a Mac we have choices. Safari is used to download the browser of choice, but unlike Internet Exploder, Safari's not bad. Firefox is my personal fave, but there's also Chrome from the Cyrius Cybernetics Corporation (Google) which of course has the engine of Edge and Opera.

Does seem odd that people actually want MS stuff on a Mac. It's bound to be buggy like all Microsoft products are (office... and that utter turd Teams)

 

[KevinN206]

Struggling to understand why people would opt for Edge, from the people that brought the horror of Internet Exploder and held back the internet by years. Mind you, lots of people earned a small fortune from fixing this.

On a Mac we have choices. Safari is used to download the browser of choice, but unlike Internet Exploder, Safari's not bad. Firefox is my personal fave, but there's also Chrome from the Cyrius Cybernetics Corporation (Google) which of course has the engine of Edge and Opera.

Does seem odd that people actually want MS stuff on a Mac. It's bound to be buggy like all Microsoft products are (office... and that utter turd Teams)

Maybe because the new Edge is based on Chromium for both HMTL and JS. Have you used the latest Edge at all or use the latest Office? I will agree you with Teams though.

 

[tubular]

Struggling to understand why people would opt for Edge, from the people that brought the horror of Internet Exploder and held back the internet by years. Mind you, lots of people earned a small fortune from fixing this.

I agree, Exploder 6 is literally the single worst thing ever to happen to the internet, even if you include Zuck.

But Ballmersoft is no more.

 

[Canyda]

Been using Edge exclusively at home for a week now, and it's definitely snappier than Chrome (and the set-ups are identical in terms of extensions and stuff)

 

[sracer]

Struggling to understand why people would opt for Edge, from the people that brought the horror of Internet Exploder and held back the internet by years. Mind you, lots of people earned a small fortune from fixing this.

On a Mac we have choices. Safari is used to download the browser of choice, but unlike Internet Exploder, Safari's not bad. Firefox is my personal fave, but there's also Chrome from the Cyrius Cybernetics Corporation (Google) which of course has the engine of Edge and Opera.

Does seem odd that people actually want MS stuff on a Mac. It's bound to be buggy like all Microsoft products are (office... and that utter turd Teams)

It's not complicated... for those who aren't stuck with 20 year old memes and slags on Microsoft. Using the phrase "Internet Exploder" in 2021? Using M$ would've raised the l33t score to 10.

As others have mentioned, Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based and is very light on resources and high on performance. On my iMacs, it is superior to Safari.

 

[coords]

Thus far I have kept my mac M$ free & I intend to keep it that way!!

 

[Glenny2lappies]

It's not complicated... for those who aren't stuck with 20 year old memes and slags on Microsoft. Using the phrase "Internet Exploder" in 2021? Using M$ would've raised the l33t score to 10.

As others have mentioned, Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based and is very light on resources and high on performance. On my iMacs, it is superior to Safari.

Microsoft's product offerings on a Mac are generally awful.
Teems is hopeless with an old-fashioned single-window interface
Office has that minging ribbon and doesn't properly work with spaces
Outlook is horrendous missing many of the Mac features such as scrolling (e.g. the calendar) and a single-window interface.
Of course there's the monthly updates to fix everything...

Wanting to install a Microsoft product voluntarily isn't something I would do. Alas have learned that over the past 30+ years of having to use their products. The best thing was when Jobs moved to the Intel platform and could finally get out of the clutches of Microsoft whilst still running development environments in VMs. The calmness and relibility of a Mac without the noise and awful user interfaces of Win-DOS. Where they have to be used, they can be boxed up in a VM and configured to remove all the useless cruft and calm down the UI. And no AV software to suck all the performance.

 

[sracer]

Microsoft's product offerings on a Mac are generally awful.
Teems is hopeless with an old-fashioned single-window interface
Office has that minging ribbon and doesn't properly work with spaces
Outlook is horrendous missing many of the Mac features such as scrolling (e.g. the calendar) and a single-window interface.
Of course there's the monthly updates to fix everything...

Wanting to install a Microsoft product voluntarily isn't something I would do. Alas have learned that over the past 30+ years of having to use their products. The best thing was when Jobs moved to the Intel platform and could finally get out of the clutches of Microsoft whilst still running development environments in VMs. The calmness and relibility of a Mac without the noise and awful user interfaces of Win-DOS. Where they have to be used, they can be boxed up in a VM and configured to remove all the useless cruft and calm down the UI. And no AV software to suck all the performance.

We're talking about Microsoft Edge in this thread, and my comment was specifically about Edge, (but I'm well on record for slamming MS Office on Mac OS for their poor UI).

You are of course free to expand the discussion into a generalized anti-Microsoft direction. I don't find that helpful or particularly accurate.