Microsoft Launches Chromium Edge Release Candidate, Brings Intranet Search To Phones (venturebeat.com) 17
Microsoft today announced that its new Edge browser based on Google's Chromium open source project has hit release candidate status. From a report: Additionally, the company shared that Chromium Edge will hit general availability in more than 90 languages on January 15, 2020. Microsoft also detailed some new features around Microsoft Search in Bing. While the two announcements might seem disjointed at first, Microsoft is trying to position Edge and Bing as "the browser and search engine for business." [...] Now that Chromium Edge is at the release candidate stage, Microsoft is sharing a little more about how it plans to differentiate the new browser from the many other Chromium-based options. As with its decision to build its own Android phone, Microsoft is tapping Google to give business users unique features on popular consumer platforms.
Whether it's hardware or software, Microsoft is obsessed with selling productivity. So that's what Chromium Edge appears destined to be: a business browser. Businesses mainly use Windows, though some also have Macs floating around so Chromium Edge is not just a Windows 10 affair. Microsoft knows the existing version of Edge isn't appealing because it isn't keeping up with the web. But the company also knows Chromium Edge will not convert most existing Chrome users, so it's focusing on the business use case. To do so, Microsoft plans to give Chromium Edge some extra privacy tools and access to corporate information that exists on company intranets. "The irony is that it is easier to find an obscure piece of information on the much larger internet than it is to find a simple document on your company's intranet -- such as a paystub portal, a pet at work policy, or the office location of a fellow employee," Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi laments.
Whether it's hardware or software, Microsoft is obsessed with selling productivity. So that's what Chromium Edge appears destined to be: a business browser. Businesses mainly use Windows, though some also have Macs floating around so Chromium Edge is not just a Windows 10 affair. Microsoft knows the existing version of Edge isn't appealing because it isn't keeping up with the web. But the company also knows Chromium Edge will not convert most existing Chrome users, so it's focusing on the business use case. To do so, Microsoft plans to give Chromium Edge some extra privacy tools and access to corporate information that exists on company intranets. "The irony is that it is easier to find an obscure piece of information on the much larger internet than it is to find a simple document on your company's intranet -- such as a paystub portal, a pet at work policy, or the office location of a fellow employee," Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi laments.
IT wasn't that good (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe make things work since it seems now there is only 2 browsers now. Chrome and Firefox
And I am surprise FF hasn't changed over yet.
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Outside of the IMO ugly UI and lack of advanced features (that most normal people don't care about anyway), it wasn't that bad either. It's pretty fast and I like how it renders pages.
It really sucks that we're down to two browsers now and FF is basically in life support. Things weren't as bad when IE7 was around, at least you had some actual choice. Now even Opera and Vivaldi are just the same shit. Really weird that none of them at least went with the FF as their engine.
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The issue with Edge (and why many projects don't use Gecko) is because Google's approach to Chrome is so belligerent.
Where a standard leaves room for the browser to make a decision, Chrome will always take the most extreme option that makes it nearly deviate from the intention of the standard and let people do things they shouldn't be doing. Take Chrome's behaviors with MediaStream and getElementsByName (might as well be querySelectorAll) as examples, but it's all over the place and not just in specific are
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Company makes a fast and efficient web browser. The general population starts using this browser as it is fast and efficient.
To keep the product up to date, they add features. At first they are welcomed features, as this fast and efficient browser needed some additional powerful features.
The browser become big and bloated, as there are so many features and legacy features that just cannot be turned off.
An Other company makes a fast and efficient web browser....
Microsoft
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Edge wasn't all that great. This really isn't going to change anything.
I don't think so. Edge's biggest problem was that it absolutely sucked handling the internet. Now they just have a re-skinned Chrome it actually stands a chance if it doesn't behave horribly broken.
Releasing after Windows 7 end of support (Score:3)
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I'd say being forced rather than choosing since versions after Windows 7 have not been good enough to warrant the upgrade.
I'd say being forced rather than choosing since versions after Windows 7 have not been good enough to warrant the DOWNGRADE......... Just sayin'
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It’s obvious Microsoft knows that there are still a lot of people choosing to stay on Windows 7 so they are keeping an up to date browser for them to use after the official deadline. This is a change from Windows XP which only had IE8 when Windows 7 had IE11 in 2014.
Don't be so sure. Once 7 is EOL the Chromium project will stop supporting it and then MS will since Edge is essentially Chrome.
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Choosing to stay on Windows 7 is for many like choosing to stay on a life raft in the mid of a rough sea. Less a choice, more a lack of choices.
And nothing of value was added... (Score:4, Funny)
Prediction: One year from now, Chromium Edge will be the default browser on Windows [insert current version here] and the typical use will be to browse to google.com/chrome, and then will be opened only by accident whenever a Windows Update resets app associations back to Microsoft defaults for the twentieth &)#^%ing time.
To funny! (Score:2)
Yep never done that before!
Just my 2 cents
Re: To funny! (Score:2)
I'd love to hear of an example solution that lets you search your intranet. I've heard of ideas for this, but I've never seen anything that actually did it at all well.
Change the name (Score:2)
Are they really going to stick with putting Chromium in the name? Google doesn't even do that.
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Chromium Chrome would be a bit pedantic don't you think?
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