*sigh* Here we go again with the browser wars....
Granted, Microsoft wants people to try Edge. That's fine. Advertise it. Make a nice big banner. Encourage people to try it.
But to intentionally stomp on existing customer choices with the new browser is just re-starting the damned browser wars of the mid-1990's all over again. Has Microsoft learned nothing in 20 years??
Okay, there's my take on this. What's yours? Sound off!
*sigh* Here we go again with the browser wars....
Mojira is kryptonite to me ever since the Eich flap.
Did Microsoft rename IE to Edge?
My take on it is that Firefox has gotten bloated and the excessive updating causes more problems than it solves. If Edge is easy to use and does what I want (blocks flash, spy cookies, popups, etc) then it may be what I need in a browser. If not, I’ll figure out how to get back to Firefox. Or Chrome. Or Seamonkey. Or IE, all of which I currently have on my Machine for various purposes.
Stay away from microsoft.
Stop the stupid rapid release of Firefox updates. They have done significant damage to the browser.
Many extension authors gave up on updates a long time ago. Newer Firefox releases broke extensions.
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Free clue for the author: EVERY WINDOWS UPGRADE DOES THIS! HELLOOOO!!!!!! Did you do any RESEARCH prior to writing this crap?
You do know (author, not you dayglored..) that the default settings can be easily changed back by the end user don't you?
Stupid articles written by uninformed, uneducated tech writers just really piss me off. WHINE WHINE WHINE my default settings changed when I installd an OS Upgrade!!! What to do, what to do!!!
Dumbasses.
Like the fact that Microsoft chose to implement HTML 5 and dumped any integration (that I could find...) that enabled Flash.
That right there is going to be the end of Flash (which deserves to die by death of a thousand cuts!) and all the insecurity/vulnerabilities it introduces.
I've been on Windows 10 since the Developer Preview and really like it now. It's much faster, the CPU and Memory processing requirements to support the OS are actually quite low as Microsoft seems to have optimized the OS Code throughout the development cycle of Windows 10.
Still don't like how they re-implemented the Start button and I choose to use Classic Shell as a replacement but overall I'd say Microsoft has a winner on their hands.
I've been updating and patching the 12 desktops, laptops and servers in my house since Monday getting them prepped and ready. They all now have the Windows 10 Upgrade icon in the status bar, which was the goal of getting everything patched up. :-)
I dropped Firefox after the purge.
I might try out Edge to see what all the hype is about. I’ve heard good things about it, but I want to take it for a spin myself. I don’t like the idea that it will change user settings and make it a default browser. For those less savvy that might be frustrating, but at least there will be the ability to return the default browser to a user choice after the in place upgrade. OSX has always retained user settings, including default browsers during in place upgrades. I’ve done in place upgrades on my Macbook Pro since Snow Leopard and currently use Yosemite.
I think it's a valid way to get people to try Edge