New features coming to the Microsoft Edge browser

wombling said:
MSRC handles security bugs sent into Microsoft. This is across all product ranges. Most of my day was spent addressing bugs found in Edge. The problems were fundamental issues not simple little bugs and there were so many.
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No, what you claim are bugs are no more than inconsistencies in the way you or you company runs its IT services. In other words, selfe generated bugs which you could eliminate yourself by reconsidering all those holy cows you have floating around.
This statement is worthless without some concrete examples.
 
Hephaestus said:
So mirosoft is paying you well, noted
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You probably don't realise your bizarrely closed and prejudiced conspiracy ad hominem says a lot about you and absolutely nothing about the topic. I'm afraid your credibility on the topic has not moved the needle above zero, so it aligns perfectly with your industry knowledge.
 
Geoff.D said:
No, what you claim are bugs are no more than inconsistencies in the way you or you company runs its IT services. In other words, selfe generated bugs which you could eliminate yourself by reconsidering all those holy cows you have floating around.
This statement is worthless without some concrete examples.
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If it does not work, as I require it, anodes not do as I require it, the EF it. Simple.

Not anybody's lemming.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
If it does not work, as I require it, anodes not do as I require it, the EF it. Simple.

Not anybody's lemming.
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I am giving you the benefit of the doubt here. I presume you also battle with tryping posts on small touch screens.
If not then your post is just garbage.
 
Say what you want about Edge, its battery usage is phenomenal, can get an extra hour on my laptop when running on battery power instead of using Chrome.

Hope this new version also has the same power usage.
 
Bryn said:
Sounds like you're making the same mistake of judging the Microsoft of today on the Microsoft of years past.

For a browser that can't be decent, the new Edge is weirdly high quality.
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This Microsoft of years past was last year. The stench is still fresh thanks.
Geoff.D said:
No, what you claim are bugs are no more than inconsistencies in the way you or you company runs its IT services. In other words, selfe generated bugs which you could eliminate yourself by reconsidering all those holy cows you have floating around.
This statement is worthless without some concrete examples.
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You want me to disclose vulnerabilities within Edge to you or give examples? Are you hoping to cash in on a bounty or just trolling? You do realize that such disclosure is prevented by an NDA? Now maybe you need to go see what MSRC actually does. MSRC is not some IT company selling services.
 
wombling said:
This Microsoft of years past was last year. The stench is still fresh thanks.

You want me to disclose vulnerabilities within Edge to you or give examples? Are you hoping to cash in on a bounty or just trolling? You do realize that such disclosure is prevented by an NDA? Now maybe you need to go see what MSRC actually does. MSRC is not some IT company selling services.
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Nah, MS has been on the mend for years already. Basically every local client I have wants Office 365 E3 or Business Premium, and they love the hell out of it.

And if you play games, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is an absolute revelation.

For myself and my clients, Windows 10 works fine. And it's pretty cheap if you have a gold membership as a Microsoft partner.

Also, I'm not sure your Edge bug bounties would be worth much seeing as the old browser is no more.
 
Daruk said:
Been test driving Ubuntu desktop. Talk about buggy.
Linux as an app server - great. As a desktop... A bit messy.
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Messy yes, but you have the source, so you can fix it, or recompile without the bits that cause problems. Also trying hard to emulate MS. Shrug.
 
wombling said:
This Microsoft of years past was last year. The stench is still fresh thanks.

You want me to disclose vulnerabilities within Edge to you or give examples? Are you hoping to cash in on a bounty or just trolling? You do realize that such disclosure is prevented by an NDA? Now maybe you need to go see what MSRC actually does. MSRC is not some IT company selling services.
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If that is the case, don't make out as if Edge is the only browser that has those vulnerabilities. Rather make the point in the correct way. And state in general what you do. That will place your comment into a context. Instead, your comment just looks like the normal ramblings that go on on this forum.
 
Bryn said:
Nah, MS has been on the mend for years already. Basically every local client I have wants Office 365 E3 or Business Premium, and they love the hell out of it.

And if you play games, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is an absolute revelation.

For myself and my clients, Windows 10 works fine. And it's pretty cheap if you have a gold membership as a Microsoft partner.

Also, I'm not sure your Edge bug bounties would be worth much seeing as the old browser is no more.
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Sigh... Why do you think this work I was doing relates to the old product?
yawn.
 
Why is it on the internet you either have to totally hate a company, without any concrete facts, or you get paid by them to support them on the forums? Why can't someone just be in the middle and accept the past mistakes, but appreciate the way they are turning things around?
 
Bryn said:
Nah, MS has been on the mend for years already. Basically every local client I have wants Office 365 E3 or Business Premium, and they love the hell out of it.

And if you play games, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is an absolute revelation.

For myself and my clients, Windows 10 works fine. And it's pretty cheap if you have a gold membership as a Microsoft partner.

Also, I'm not sure your Edge bug bounties would be worth much seeing as the old browser is no more.
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Bottom line - you love Microsoft. That's fantastic. Good for you and the rest of your clients who do also. I personally have no beef with them either. I am friends with a ton of the MS guys personally. Their products are mostly fairly good. I'm just not a fan of Edge. Lets just call it personal reasons for simplicity sake.
 
I tried to like Edge, used it for a while but had a few major problems with it, like it wouldn't keep its settings forcing me to set it up for our software config every time I needed to use it.
I use IE for running our Oracle & Business Intelligence front-end, Firefox for the client's intranet & management tools & Chrome to browse mybroadband amongst other, but Edge irritated me so I ripped it out my system.
I might try again in a few years but for now, that's a big hairy nope from me.
 
grok said:
I tried to like Edge, used it for a while but had a few major problems with it, like it wouldn't keep its settings forcing me to set it up for our software config every time I needed to use it.
I use IE for running our Oracle & Business Intelligence front-end, Firefox for the client's intranet & management tools & Chrome to browse mybroadband amongst other, but Edge irritated me so I ripped it out my system.
I might try again in a few years but for now, that's a big hairy nope from me.
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You are entitled to your views, just as we are. I made the transition to Edge. I worked through all "my" issues with it dispassionately and objectively, and, at the end of the process, I came to the conclusion, that provided I was prepared to challenge my own pre-conceived ideas what makes for a "good" browser I could learn to use Edge. In the end, there were almost no issues that I could truly call show stoppers. Then the transition was easy. So much so, that to now use Chrome is a huge irritation to me.

So, if you re not prepared to quote and describe very specific reasons why Edge does not work, I reserve the right to evaluate what you say with a huge bag of salt and ignore it simply because very few of you naysayers are ever prepared to state exactly what you find so horrendous about Edge that makes it worth spending so much criticising something you have admitted you do not use.
If you do not use it you cannot claim to be aware of the changes either.
 
Geoff.D said:
You are entitled to your views, just as we are. I made the transition to Edge. I worked through all "my" issues with it dispassionately and objectively, and, at the end of the process, I came to the conclusion, that provided I was prepared to challenge my own pre-conceived ideas what makes for a "good" browser I could learn to use Edge. In the end, there were almost no issues that I could truly call show stoppers. Then the transition was easy. So much so, that to now use Chrome is a huge irritation to me.

So, if you re not prepared to quote and describe very specific reasons why Edge does not work, I reserve the right to evaluate what you say with a huge bag of salt and ignore it simply because very few of you naysayers are ever prepared to state exactly what you find so horrendous about Edge that makes it worth spending so much criticising something you have admitted you do not use.
If you do not use it you cannot claim to be aware of the changes either.
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The problem most of these "Naysayers" test the browser for 10 minutes, don't really try to find ways around the issues, and then revert to their perfectly set-up Chrome with all the tweaks done, then just revert back to "MS Sucks because reasons"
 
grok said:
I tried to like Edge, used it for a while but had a few major problems with it, like it wouldn't keep its settings forcing me to set it up for our software config every time I needed to use it.
I use IE for running our Oracle & Business Intelligence front-end, Firefox for the client's intranet & management tools & Chrome to browse mybroadband amongst other, but Edge irritated me so I ripped it out my system.
I might try again in a few years but for now, that's a big hairy nope from me.
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You used Edge for a while? The new one only released publicly little over a month ago.
 
A lot of the comments of hate is around the original Edge and not the new Chromium Edge. Microsoft were caught in a hard place whether to give it a new name or not. The reality is the edgine is the same as Chrome - so stuff will render the same as Google Chrome does. There is some funky business stuff like syncing to corporate accounts. Family management for Windows 10 works on new Edge which didn't work with third party like Chrome or FireFox. This is a great win for parents.
 
I've been meaning to try it, but I've gotten a bit numb to all the "new" browsers. Vivaldi, Opera, Brave.. All effectively do the same thing, but you get to play find the bug.

So far, I'm happy with Firefox, and I like the opensource community that is available - plus, I don't want to get tied into a single ecosystem. Maybe I'll try Edge once it's available for Linux. :)

As to the whole MS thing - I've posted this before, I love their new direction, and completely agree with the posts by @Bryn in this thread. Between all the big tech companies MS does seem to be the least "evil" these days. I have a hair trigger for them posting ads in my OS - when that happens in a way that annoys me, I'm outta their clutches in a moment.
 
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