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No, it's just that Edge is a universal app and uses API's only available in Windows 10.
by Aleman360 11y ago
No, it's just that Edge is a universal app and uses API's only available in Windows 10.
- balls187 11y agoSo, that's a Yes, Microsoft is coupling their browser.
- outside1234 11y agoYou mean like Safari in MacOSX, Mobile Safari in iOS, Chrome in Android or Firefox in Ubuntu? Yes. A browser is sort of a non-optional thing in an OS these days seeing how this world wide web thing is popular.
- balls187 11y agoWhile every OS ships with a browser, I think the OP was asking "do you have to install windows 10" in order to get the new MSFT Browser. IIRC, those examples you listed, you don't need to install the latest OS X to get the latest version of Safari (though you need to have a recently supported OS).
- eropple 11y agoYou've always needed a reasonably recent version of OS X to use up-to-date versions of Safari. The window for "reasonably recent", right now, is Windows 10. There is no basis in fact to claim that Edge+1 will not support Windows 10, too.
- balls187 11y agoNo need to be defensive. I'm simply stating the following sentence is true: Windows 10 and Edge are coupled.
- SomeStupidPoint 11y agoYou're trying really hard to make it sound like a bad thing that Microsoft finally stopped their awful practice of dragging forward a huge stack of backward compatibility, wrote a new API to replace the cruft, and is working on writing new technologies to use this. The reason that Edge requires Windows 10 and not Windows 8 is that Microsoft bungled Windows 8 structurally, and they don't want to write their software for "sinking ship compliance".
- eropple 11y agoYup. I literally never thought I'd see barefaced attempts at FUD over making things better, even when it's Microsoft. Some people are impervious to irony.
- balls187 11y agoI don't think you understand the definition of irony.
- balls187 11y ago> You're trying really hard to make it sound like a bad thing that Microsoft finally stopped their awful practice of dragging forward a huge stack of backward compatibility, wrote a new API to replace the cruft, and is working on writing new technologies to use this. Straw Man logical fallacy. I am simply saying the following is a fact: Edge is coupled with Windows 10. Based on a previous comment to the effect of: "It's not coupled but requires windows 10 API's" Whether or not that is good,bad,or indifferent I make no judgement on. Especially given that both Chrome and Firefox are really great alternatives and are on a lot of platforms already.
- ikeboy 11y agoPlease go check when the last Windows version of Safari was released.
- joshuapants 11y agoYou can't use Safari 8 on Mavericks. In a sense they backported some features to Safari 7 (as well as security updates, etc), but it's a distinct version and a very different browser.
- balls187 11y agoFair point. Many versions of Safari are coupled with OS X updates.
- rockdoe 11y agoYou missed the point what "coupling" means. Chrome runs on Android but also runs elsewhere. Same for Firefox.