Tuesday, December 4th 2018
Microsoft to Kill off Edge Browser, Replace with its Own Chromium-derivative?
It looks like Microsoft is on a tactical retreat in the web-browser wars, with no amount of marketing integrated with Windows 10 dissuading users from using Google's near-monopolistic Chrome web-browser. Windows Central has come out with a sensational report that suggests that Microsoft could kill off the Edge web-browser that ships with Windows 10. It could try a different strategy against Chrome - designing a new web-browser that's derived from Chromium, the open-source foundation that supplies Chrome with key components. Much like Firefox, Chromium is heavily forked and customized by the OSS community.
Microsoft is internally calling this Chromium-based browser "Anaheim." The browser will be designed for both the x86 and ARM versions of Windows 10, and could be heavily differentiated from Edge and Internet Explorer, which could include a new branding, or perhaps even a significantly different user-interface from Edge. Microsoft could begin non-public community testing of "Anaheim" throughout 2019.
Source:
Windows Central
Microsoft is internally calling this Chromium-based browser "Anaheim." The browser will be designed for both the x86 and ARM versions of Windows 10, and could be heavily differentiated from Edge and Internet Explorer, which could include a new branding, or perhaps even a significantly different user-interface from Edge. Microsoft could begin non-public community testing of "Anaheim" throughout 2019.
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I prefer they invest in better browser team
It's a piece of shit with virtually nonexistant configuration possibilities (well, just like Firefox to be fair).
Edge still flaunts web standards though.
Anyway, sad news if it's true. Now that Microsoft doesn't shove Edge down my throat as they did before, it is nice to have an alternative to the dominating Chrome+Firefox duo (on the desktop that is, I believe on mobile it's Chrome+Safari).
Okay for Google, not okay for Microsoft? Double standard much?
All we have now is Webkit, Chromium(Blink) and Gecko left, which are almost on the same page already.
Edge wasn't bad, especially in terms of performance, but what kills it the most is a very awkward and clunky UI.
Let me summarize my philosophy simply for you:
More browsers good.
I wonder how they're going to implement one feature in particular that I like: Application Guard (virtualizes Edge in it's own secure session).
Back in my younger days I had a truly abysmal computer with a paltry sized hard drive and almost no ram. The system was Windows 98. I decided to pare everything down just so there was enough room so my kids could get a game on there (Spider-Man, The Movie).
Yep, you guessed it. Everything was going great until I ripped Internet Explorer out. Not good. The system basically quit working, since the process pulled out a lot of essential explorer stuff.
As you can imagine, a reinstall was necessary.Frequent use makes it very intuitive. The reason I started using it at home in lieu of FF is because it’s our browser at work. Now I literally find IE to feel like a relic if I have to use it.
You mean ltsb?
Now I see even less of a reason for MS to move from Edge.