Microsoft Edge is full of fantastic features, but the tech company makes it hard to appreciate them.

Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge::Microsoft Edge is full of fantastic features, but the tech company makes it hard to appreciate them.

  • TurboLag@lemmings.worldEnglish
    72·
    11 months ago

    Now, Google is bringing in Manifest V3, a new version of Chromium.

    If this is the level of their understanding, it’s hard to trust anything this outlet publishes.

  • joeyv120@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    659·
    11 months ago

    I’ve been a MS products fan since Windows Phone, Cortana, and OneNote stole my heart. I loved the great features that Windows 10 and Edge provided out-of-the box. Bing provided better results than Google for some time.

    But Phone was never accepted by the market, and with it, Cortana faded away. OneNote hasn’t kept up with the market, and they somehow broke the cursor on mobile. Sticky Notes lost compatibility with Dark Mode. They started pushing ads to Windows start menu, and embedded ads in Edge Collections.

    Microsoft makes great software, then fuck it all up. Oh well, back to Linux.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      7311·
      11 months ago

      ha. ive spent my entire career installing and managing microsoft products. top to bottom. soup to nuts. client to server… for 40 years. my bread and butter relies on microsoft.

      its all garbage, and their quality control is actually getting worse.

      this entire post is fanboi fiction.

    • YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
      221·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been using Microsoft products since the early days of DOS, and the only product that truly impressed me was NT; it was a breath of fresh air as a developer, with its new kernel and much improved stability. Finally, we could develop for windows and not have the OS crash!

      Everything else has driven me nuts, and their quality had definitely gone drastically down hill. Their software now is a bloated mess of ugly, especially windows. How did we get to an OS that installs so many gigs of files? Holy crap!

      I try to always use Firefox and never use Edge.

      • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        Windows XP 64 bit edition was Microsofts peak, everything has been downhill from there. Microsoft Research (a child company of Microsoft proper) does some really cool stuff. Everything interesting/good to come out of MS in the last couple decades started there, and then the main Microsoft company got ahold of it and inevitably cocked it up.

        For a brief period of time I was hopeful that MS had turned over a new leaf when they started to opensource their dev software like VS Code and typescript, but that’s always been a bait and switch. They’re handing carrots out to developers while simultaneously beating their normal customers with sticks.

        • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
          42·
          11 months ago

          i never believed their heart open source phase, and i still think they are trying to figure out how to eee stuff like linux

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Are you me? Get out of my brain!

        NT changed everything.

        Windows 10 is labelled NT10 internally

      • joeyv120@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        On mobile, when everyone was releasing their new voice assistant technologies, Cortana outperformed them all. On desktop I agree that Cortana was a waste of space.

    • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Dude if windows phone actually like Stuck around I was so gonna get one Cause I was so interested in the concept Thinking about trying Linux phones tbh

  • witty_username@feddit.nlEnglish
    251·
    11 months ago

    Bit alarmist no? Microsoft doesn’t necessarily need to build on top of the latest chromium. They certainly have the resources to just fork chromium and keep that updated.
    Not that I personally care, I just use Firefox

  • Tick Dracy@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    For some time, Edge was my favourite browser, given that it has awesome features like sleeping tabs, vertical tabs and web select (this last one allowed you to select an html table and paste in excel). With the silent removal of web select, and adding more and more useless features, they just pushed me into Firefox.

  • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    It’s a genuine shame because Edge could very easily become the best browser on Windows if only MS played their cards right. Resource optimization of this browser is terrific and it leaves both Chrome and Firefox behind in terms of speed and snappiness. All MS needs to do is make it FOSS, strip down the unnecessary bloat and ensure firsthand content blocking support, and it will be straight-up unbeatable.