Re:Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft ...
by lostcolony on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:52AM
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Yes, it was partially tongue in cheek.
That said, most of those who understand there are multiple browsers likely do so due to a time when, yes, IE was -terrible-...and so all their saved stuff, preferred plugins, etc, are in Firefox or Chrome. So their first act on getting a new computer is to reinstall and sync that stuff. Not "give that new Microsoft browser a spin".
Re:Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft ...
by DonHopkins on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:25AM
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There was actually a time in history when Internet Explorer was arguably the best browser on the Mac!
Re:Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft ...
by ConceptJunkie on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:50PM
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There was a time when IE was arguably the best browser for Windows. Unfortunately, this time was about 20 years ago.
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 only use it to download Chrome’ is helpful. It’s not IE 7. It’s a perfectly fine browser.