Re:Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
by Klathmon on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @11:45AM
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Edge for android and iOS use the built-in rendering engines on each platform.
Edge for Android is using Blink, Edge for iOS is using Webkit.
They could give you "Edge for windows 7" but it wouldn't be the same rendering engine from Edge on windows 10.
Re:Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
by earenndil on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:07PM
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...except that they could? It would probably be simple to port the engine from win10 to win7, in a way that it wouldn't be to port it to a completely different os that is also mobile.
Re:Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
by tw04 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @11:48AM
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Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended in 2015. Do you also want them to support edge on Android 4.3? Or are you a little more pragmatic in expecting users to update more than once every 7 years?
Re:Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
by MagnumOpus on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:25PM
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If you refuse to make your app installable on your own OS that half of the world's desktop computers are running, you don't need to wonder that it is not gaining market share.
My life as a programmer would be better if I didn't have to support IE11 / Windows 7, but instead of doing that, they spent some time getting it running where no one wants it.