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.
92 Comments on Microsoft to Kill off Edge Browser, Replace with its Own Chromium-derivative?
Everything is being replaced even tho it offers very good functionality. Was Skype of MSN a better switch? No. Was Edge a better alternative in comparison of IE? Yes. Was Edge better then Chrome? No.
MS switches shit every x years and they need to stop doing that. Dont fix what's not broken.
I don't have many probs with old MS way of doing things. I don't blame others for competing like that either. I only dislike Google because they're not a true tech company. They're an ad company first (and every form of tech they develop serves that purpose first.. rather than the other way around). It's a tragedy that a fake tech company rules the tech world... and has everyone convinced they're a tech company. MS, Apple, Intel, etc... are all real tech focused companies. Yet people dislike them more. /rant
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_tables
Chrome 65.49%
IE 9.66%
Firefox 8.99%
Edge 4.23%
Safari 3.76%
Opera 1.56%
Other 6.31%
That bolded number is the reason why we might see a Chromium-based, IE6 backwards-compatible Microsoft browser (HTML1.1-5 support). Internet Explorer has become a liability for Microsoft. It's too costly to write from the ground up to be secure and backwards compatible so they're cheapening it by using Chromium as a foundation. It likely won't be as fast as Chrome but that's not the point (Edge is usually faster anyway). It is meant to get all of those XP/Vista/7 businesses to Windows 10 with a browser that won't break anything.
Edge is here to stay. It does what it needs to do very well. It has also shed virtually all of its backwards compatibility to get there.
Edge is actually quite feature complete for a browser, much like Chrome. You're entitled to your opinion, but its not really valid. Its also incredibly fast and it has a smaller footprint than Chrome does.
Its funny you should say 'just like Firefox' because the two are not alike in the slightest, and here's the kicker, both Edge and FF do certain things much better than Chrome does. An example of this is related to web-based development work and working with SaaS applications through a browser. Chrome is OK, and FF and Edge are better, an example is how they handle XMLs. On the other hand, while Firefox seems to be in decline, Edge is moving up, both in quality and userbase.
For casual use, Chrome is great, foolproof, sandboxed and thus safe. For anything advanced, its one of the least interesting browsers.
Any comparison with IE, in any case, is so far off the mark its unreal.
I like Linux.. don't get me wrong. I just hate pussies more. Which is what I'm going to continue ranting about for today. Nadella is the type to do this (since he already is doing similar things). Yet just a few years ago, MS had Steve Ballmer who called Linux a "Cancer". Those are some fighting words.
I miss the good ole days of these figures at each other's throats. And we, as users, benefited from more choice. Look at the landscape now: Less OSes, less CPUs/GPUs/browsers/services/etc.. Everything is converging. And it's boring.
But I could see people at MS being stupid enough to throw that all away. Throw in the towel on phones and browsers and Office exclusivity.. then the OS is one step away.
The only aggression here is me..against the direction I see Microsoft slowly going in.
I don't use Edge, I dont use IE, and I won't "switch" to a "new" MS browser just to access legacy when I can get there already. After what MS has done to Skype, I basically HAVE NO FAITH in what MS is doing with their applications/customers.
And when they do stick to the old, people shit on that anyways. Familiarity breeds contempt... even though it works fine.
All in all, I think MS hate is irrational.
I mean, I get what you are saying, not taking it literally. But seriously, what does "having balls" have to do with a good software product?You forgot wayland. Linux is pushing to end that seperation in many ways. XServer is just hard to get rid of entirely for backwards compatibility reasons. Still, the xserver basically draws via the kernel so the difference is almost academic at this point.