Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser Now Available On Windows 7 and Windows 8 (theverge.com) 58
The Chromium-powered Edge browser is now available on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 for testing today. The Verge reports: The release comes two months after Chromium Edge first debuted on Windows 10, and a month after it appeared on macOS. Microsoft is releasing the daily Canary builds initially, and plans to support the weekly Dev channel "soon." You can download the installer over at Microsoft's Edge Insider site. "You will find the experience and feature set on previous versions of Windows to be largely the same as on Windows 10, including forthcoming support for Internet Explorer mode for our enterprise customers," explains a Microsoft Edge team blog post. While most features will be the same, dark mode is missing and Microsoft says there is no support for AAD sign-in.
Meh. (Score:1)
Windows 7 is about to hit end of life, and everything after 7 sucks pretty hard. I switched my home PC to Fedora Linux about a month ago. I'm never going back.
I have had problems that required technical know-how to fix, and that were next-level compared to anything that ever happened under Windows. I still think that Linux is not ready for the desktop and may never be, just because of that. But I am smart and I figured it out, and I also got all my recent games running through Lutris and Proton, so it's
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Microsoft is getting rid of 7 you dipshit, they want $100 per year for updates after this year.
[citation needed]
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Re:Meh. (Score:5, Insightful)
Still better then that Windows 10 Spyware shit.
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I see your point. I didn't elaborate on why I thought that everything after 7 sucks.
I dislike the aggressive spying with complex and incomplete privacy controls. I was very put-off by the aggressive upgrade campaign for 10 and the long period of mandatory updates. Updates for 10 are no longer mandatory, but the attitude of "We push our users around" really got me thinking about how Windows works for Microsoft first, and us second. Whereas Linux works for us first.
I am actually not new to Linux. I evalu
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In Windows 10, the spying wasn't the top problem I had w/ it - the way I do on Android. The main problem was the frequency of patches, and also the amount of pre-installed software and packages that stopped working over time. I plan to take that laptop to Microcenter (where I bought it) and have them clean and re-install Windows, and see what happens.
Real problem is that the things that they designed for it, like the Windows store, first sputtered, then just downright failed. Apps I downloaded from the
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Windows 8.1 experience is not much different from 7. There are ways to put the start menu back in. The extended support will last until 2023.
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Unfortunately, you can't buy new PCs with Windows 8.1 any more, nor upgrade to it, so it's of limited help as an alternative to 10 for the nearly-half of all Windows users who are still running 7 today.
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That's true. But at the same time, I don't advise throwing away your old Windows 8 PCs or upgrading them to 10.
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Time moves on. Windows 8.1 kernel and it's features excluding it's desktop start screen was my favorite. Fast boot with uefi if you turned off csm bios emulation. Hyper-v, and stability.
However, you miss out on visual studio 2019, store apps like One Note, wsl Linux, and many features if you work in the technology field. For example if you want to learn sccm the labkit VMS require Windows 10 1709 later version for Hyper-v underneath it
If you don't work in the technology field then maybe no but most alashdot
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In Windows 8.1, I used Classic Shell. Problem there is that even w/ that, one still has to toggle b/w desktop and metro mode. Windows 10 did fix that aspect, and I use Classic Shell w/ 10, and that part works pretty smoothly.
Problem is that a lot of the stuff they had w/ Windows 8.1 has either devolved, or just completely gone away. For instance, the News app on Windows 8 allowed you to pick your preferred news sources, and showed you just that. Whereas now, in the era where former tech companies have
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Windows 7 is about to hit end of life, and everything after 7 sucks pretty hard. I switched my home PC to Fedora Linux about a month ago. I'm never going back.
I have had problems that required technical know-how to fix, and that were next-level compared to anything that ever happened under Windows. I still think that Linux is not ready for the desktop and may never be, just because of that. But I am smart and I figured it out, and I also got all my recent games running through Lutris and Proton, so it's good enough for me.
I endorse it for anyone who is not afraid of technical troubleshooting. Being free from Microsoft's spying and general pushiness is totally worth it.
Precisely, how exactly does it make sense to release something for 2 OS versions that they themselves ended? Also, how many Windows 8 users are there who didn't move on to 10? I know a lot of 7 users who refused to upgrade and for good reason, but for 8? There, there was no reason to stay.
Unlike you, I went the FreeBSD route (first PC-BSD, then TrueOS when it changed). Except for WiFi, the whole thing works, and the only thing I really use my other Windows laptop for is Steam, and occasionally when I
This is great! (Score:5, Funny)
Now it's going be a whole new experience opening Microsoft's browser to download Firefox. Well done! ;)
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You can get them to work by shoe horning them. Did it from the XP era to 7. Engineers need fast modern systems and as far as I can tell 7 hardware era support stops at 2015 era hardware
No thank you. (Score:3)
Already have some browsers on my Win 7 systems. None of the browsers I use are made by Microsoft. iexplore never made it to the setup phase and will stay that way.
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As a browser, it has never been setup. Yes, the OS can pass commands to iexplore, but it has never been used as a browser..
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USB, ftp, there are many ways...
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I think you're confusing Chromium and WebKit. Chromium is OSS but it's still very much Google controlled and tightly integrated with Google services.
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From https://github.com/Eloston/ung... [github.com]:
"Some" dependency, so not a lot; there's more detail there about exactly what the project does to "ungoogle" their version of Chromium.
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This is not a "Google product." Chromium-based Edge is built from Chromium, the open-source backbone of Chrome. All of it is open source, and Microsoft gets to choose what code goes into *their* product; Microsoft is free to remove anything they see as "spyware."
They may be free to, but are they removing any 'spyware', and why would they? Since they've adapted Google's business strategy of data collection, thereby substituting traditional software sales as their main revenue stream
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You mean the same way Windows 10 spies on your every move?
Windows 7 users getting a lifeline (Score:2)
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In other news... (Score:1)
Someone Entered a Bus Somewhere!
A Tree in a Forest Continues To Grow!
Sand Now Available on Sahara!
I think the last one is even more interesting than this article. Nobody cares for Microsoft's faulty bloated products anymore. Nobody.
Mmmm smell that desperation (Score:2)
It's funny/sad to see how hard they're trying now to get people to use their edge browser. Everyone pokes fun at Apple's RDF, but Microsoft seems to have one just as large, because they are completely oblivious to what people genuinely think about their products.
Unless you are very young, you know exactly what happened during the IE6 years, and I for one will *never* use another browser made by Microsoft. Ever. I don't care if has the ability to make gold bullion shoot out my USB port. The way they have