Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25% share

Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by r00fus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:00AM (#13548913)

For good reason. Microsoft left their browser dev abandoned for 5 years after they "won" their bitter war against Netscape. And only the Firefox (nee Phoenix) browser rising from the ashes of Netscape fought on.

Edge is a decent browser, but Microsoft was not kind nor to be trusted back then. They have to earn their new trust.

On the open-source front we now have several great browsers - Safari/Webkit (which is very strong on mobile), Chrome/Blink (was Webkit) which dominates, and Firefox/Gecko which is a solid reliable browser thats crossplatform.

Why should anyone choose Edge?

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by HugoDaniel on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:10AM (#13548943)

If you include Safari/Webkit on that list then don't forget to also include Edge/Chakra[0] ;)

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by r00fus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:45PM (#13553217)

Is Edge cross-platform on significant platforms?

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by HugoDaniel on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:54PM (#13600373)

It works on my xbox one

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