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It's a good bit ludicrous that they are providing Edge for IOS / Android but not for previous versions of Windows. My life as a programmer would be better if I
by schlipity 9y ago
It's a good bit ludicrous that they are providing Edge for IOS / Android but not for previous versions of Windows.
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.
- Klathmon 9y agoEdge 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.
- earenndil 9y ago...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.
- tw04 9y agoMainstream 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?
- MagnumOpus 9y agoIf 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.