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Unlike IE, the NT kernel was never bad and is still (presumably) in a pretty good shape. It's the userland that's gone insane. Someone should just port the Wind
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Unlike IE, the NT kernel was never bad and is still (presumably) in a pretty good shape. It's the userland that's gone insane. Someone should just port the Windows 7 shell to the newest kernel and call it a day.
- joe_mamba 9mo ago>Ever since they got the delicious taste of white-labelling chromium instead of fixing ie What exactly was wrong with Edge Legacy(not IE) based on their own engine that they need to fix, and why was Chromium a sweet taste? AFAIk Edge Legacy was kicking ass in all benchmarks. Their only achilles heel was Google messing up Youtube and G-apps to break they way they got displayed on Edge LEgacy forcing users to switch to Chrome.
- vachina 9mo ago> What exactly was wrong with Edge(not IE) The constant fear of having Copilot shoved down your throat whenever you close and update Edge. And Microsoft homepage. > why was Chromium a sweet taste? Do zero of the heavy work maintaining a browser engine. Do maximum (little) work of adding AI slop.
- joe_mamba 9mo ago>The constant fear of having Copilot shoved down your throat whenever you close and update Edge. Copilot only cam after they switched Edge Legacy to Edge Chromium.
- accrual 9mo agoI was playing with the RTM release of Windows 10 which came with the "new Edge" browser (post-IE, pre-Chromium). It's a cool piece of software, very slick and minimal browser UI and not a hint of Copilot anywhere (since that would come ~8 years later). I imagine it was not as compatible and it was less work to simply rebrand Chromium as Edge.
- layer8 9mo agoEdge Legacy was always playing catch-up trying to be sufficiently compatible with Chrome. And personally, I preferred the native IE UI over the Chrome-lookalike Edge UI. I’d still have liked for Microsoft to keep maintaining their own engine, but I can understand why they didn’t.
- evilduck 9mo agoWhat was wrong is that they had to foot the bill. Now Google does the hard and expensive part for them.
- joe_mamba 9mo agoI meant what was wrong from the user's perspective who complained. Not from MS's perspective.