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I'm going to be honest, but this is a really weird way for Microsoft to announce Edge is EOL and they can't afford to even hire two or three more developers to
by DiabloD3 2y ago
I'm going to be honest, but this is a really weird way for Microsoft to announce Edge is EOL and they can't afford to even hire two or three more developers to perma-fork Chrome and bring the rest of the Chromium community under one roof, away from Google (who is an extremely bad steward of the project).
Shame that Microsoft just chose to no longer have a real browser. Oh well, long live MSIE I guess.
- sigmoid10 2y agoIt is also a collossal missed opportunity. When Google eventually kills it on Chrome, everyone will switch to the next best thing. Microsoft could have put Edge ahead of Firefox in that game and collected all those users. Since Microsoft's business doesn't revolve around ad-revenue, they don't even have any skin in this game. It's pure lazyness that will only hurt them long-time.
- DiabloD3 2y agoYep. And they don't even have skin in the Windows game. They haven't been the Windows company for... Oh Christ, I'm getting old, since 2014. The day Sataya became CEO they officially became a cloud company. If it wouldn't literally fuck over the entire world, they'd just stop Windows entirely.
- account42 2y agoIf microsoft wanted to spend the money required to maintain a browser on their own they wouldn't have moved to Chromium in the first place - the entire point of Edge vs. IE was that they gave that up.