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Microsoft has about 120 times the number of employees that Mozilla has. That's an insane number. If they consider the browser remotely important, they can put m

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  • i336_ 11y ago
    ...that is impressive. Now I know that, I'm actually looking forward to playing with the engine more than before - a concentrated braintrust of a few skilled engineers is always more ideal than a sprawling mass of seagulls (to borrow ideology from Finding Nemo :P). The flip side, of course, is that all of you have to keep your game up to quite a high degree or you're out. Respect. (I think what the Edge team as a whole has managed is really amazing - I mean, a brand new browser...) [Also... I have to ask... I've been wondering since before this announcement: is it an even remotely vague possibility that I'll ever able to natively run EdgeHTML on FreeBSD or Linux one day in the distant future, source or binary? :D]
  • mSparks 11y ago
    I have to apologise. but it shows. I simply can't take this claim it has better coverage at face value. because I only just finished testing a week or so ago and the js code we deploy that works on every platform from android through Linux mac ios and Windows. is still mostly broken on edge and doesn't even begin to work in ie. so we will still be recommending users not to use edge or ie at this time. that recommendation isn't one I make happily. but windows machines make up such an insignificant part of the market now it's an easy business decision.