Google has for its entire history had strong ties to building a developer community. For instance Google Summer of Code [0] and here's a list of Google APIs with 179 current APIs [1].

[0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

[1] https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer

Conveniently leaving out the hundreds of times that Google has randomly terminated APIs or entire products with minimal if any forewarning, or reduced API functionality or pricing without forewarning, and the complete and utter lack of support [edit] Google provides to developers who don't already have their own twitter following.

I like the idea of Google Developer Supper.

It's almost as if Google is a massive organization running hundreds of initiatives spanning decades, making it difficult to simplify things with a single description.

And Microsoft is a feisty startup with a focused product line?

No, Microsoft is the same. My comment doesn't imply that Microsoft is somehow simpler than Google. The point is that the two people above me are disagreeing because they're over-simplifying these complex entities.

And yet one constant that connects all past Google projects: premature, without-warning shuttering of operations*

* not all operations, but enough for it to become a cliche

Did you really feel the need to criticize the poster, instead of the post? It's not just a meme, it's reality, and a result of how Google is run. People create new services to get promotions and then abandon them. With no recognition from maintenance, they wither and die, and are terminated. It is not inconceivable that GCP could suffer this fate too, judging from leaked communications.

And yet when I open Edge, I get a million ads for crappy tabloid news websites thrust in my face, while when I open Chrome I don't see any ads.

I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

Also, happy to report that 1password has an extension for Edge as well - that's awesome.

Only thing I'm missing is a dark mode extension. I don't trust the somewhat sketchy ones that I see so far on the store.

> I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :)

I chose focused. It's a nice option.

Too bad it doesn't respect your search engine preferences, because any searches you do with it seem to always go to Bing, regardless of what address-bar search engine you have selected.

You can also install extensions from the Chrome Web Store in Edge, there's a switch to enable the feature on the extension management page.

If you enable dark mode in your Windows settings, you can just use the built in browser dark mode. This is also a setting in CSS to enable dark mode when this is enabled. Last, you can install extensions from the Chrome Store.

The tabloid you can further deactivate under the gear of the new tab

Chrome android features lots of tabloid ad crap in its home page.

I believe this may also be dependent on whether you're on a personal machine or enterprise network. My Edge start page has a gear with the Page Layout options (Focused, Inspirational, Informative) and also radio buttons for Page Content with a choice between Office365 and Microsoft News. My default displayed Office365 (recent documents opened list) without any of the MS News agg tiles.