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Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
On Windows it has a market, because it can have proper internet explorer integration so its one browser for all that people already have.
But what selling point do they have on Linux? I assume Playready won't work, i assume IE integration won't work, so at that point its just Chrome with microsoft integration instead of Google integration. I rather just keep using brave on linux.
As if we didn't already have over three dozen web browsers based on Chromium.
You're trying really hard to be clever, but then name ONE other Chromium-based web browser that's available for Linux, Windows x86, Windows S, Windows on ARM, macOS, iOS, and Android. Heck, you can even throw out the Chromium criteria. There just isn't any.
Am I the only one thinking that this is humiliating for Microsoft who controlled 95% of the browser market share 15 years ago to now use Google's browser, give up the smartphone race and lose the web search battle?
Don't forget the internet server space. Linux was a hobbyist OS not that long ago. Now it runs all of Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, etc. Not to mention all the various Cisco and Brocade LAN and SAN devices behind the scenes. The boring corporate desktop is literally the only place where Microsoft still has dominance, and that's almost exclusively due to MS Office. Which is why they will never release Office for Linux, or if they do, it'll be a crippled cut down version like it was for Mac.
Back to the main topic, IMO releasing Edge browser for Linux is like releasing MS Paint or Notepad for Linux. It's the answer to a question nobody asked. Plus I'm sure it will be cut down, as Edge on Windows has significant hooks into Windows API's, DRM controls, etc. that I doubt will be ported to Linux.
Last edited by torsionbar28; 05 November 2019, 02:07 PM.
Nice, I won't mind using it. Already using Edge on Android anyway.
Would be even better if Edge on Linux is a native Wayland application. That would be a good way to embarrass the Chromium dev team: making Chromium Wayland-ready even before Chromium Ozone stabilizes.
With the amount of resources Microsoft has at its disposal, it's not impossible.
Disgusting.
Why would I use a browser from the company that makes the spyware disguised as an OS (Windows 10) and tries to destroy their last good OS (Windows 7) ?
So, no thanks!
I don't want spyware on Linux too!
Disgusting.
Why would I use a browser from the company that makes the spyware disguised as an OS (Android 5 and up) and tries to destroy their last good OS (Android 4/ICS) ?
So, no thanks!
I don't want more spyware on Linux too!
That's also how I feel about Google and Chrome these days.
Why would I willingly install Spyware Browser C from Data Collection Corp GO?
Why would I willingly install Spyware Browser E from Data Collection Corp MS?
At least Spyware Browser F from Data Collection Corp MZ has spyware on/off switches and vast amounts of (less restricted than C) anti-spyware plugins.
My experience with Spyware Browser E and Open Source Spyware Browser C is limited to going to mozilla.org to download Spyware Browser F.
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