Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh “bribery” backlash.
Does Edge support Linux? Actually, never mind. I’m good.
Should you ever feel the urge to do something wild and stupid: yes, actually Microsoft offers an official Linux version of Edge.
That’s crazy. It must just be super easy considering it’s chromium now.
Currently, for some inexplicable reason, Teams calls are broken on my Debian Trixie in all browsers except edge. I suspect foul play.
Hey Microsoft, how about innovating instead? Edge is a Chrome engine browser like dozens of others out there. Why not write a new browser engine to give customers a choice? Or at worst, how about contract with Apple to license Webkit bringing a third solid choice for a browser engine to Windows. You’re not going to out-Chrome Google Chrome browser, so stop trying.
You want another version of IE?
I’d need a reason to use Edge. If it used a different browser engine, that would be a compelling reason.
Did you use IE when it was still around? Edge is their “new” offering, because of how terrible their own engine was. Moving back to their own engine would be a step backwards.
Edge is a Chrome engine browser like dozens of others out there. Why not write a new browser engine to give customers a choice?
they tried that with Edge 1.0
They might with a built in ad blocker 🙃
Thats the description of both Vivaldi and Brave browsers, which also haven’t out-Chromed Chrome. Both are Chrome engine with built in ad blockers.
Exactly, the average person using installing browser add-ons. They want a lightweight, simple browser from a familiar brand that just works. Adblocking alone isn’t enough to convince Average Joe to switch, when they don’t even know that adblockers exist.
What’s the small print? Edge is already a requirement for me at work.
Eyo who’s got a botnet? I have an idea
They’re just making themselves look trashy and desperate.
What might work is making their software better than everyone else’s. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.
All of whom Microsoft doesnt posses.
I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.
Just imagining Clippy in front of a cracked mirror, “jessss a little more rouge and you can’t have too much mascara…”
Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. - Clippy
https://quokk.au/c/clips/p/784512/nice-hat
You can always trust AI for fashion advice.
But if we are being honest, if you don’t care about privacy, it is a good browser. Its better than chrome. You can check the performance of of both on the same machine. It also has better pdf rendering.
It’s trash. It front pages clickbait and bullshit, has no privacy, and with so many other options why bother?
I am not saying you should use it, i was addressing app quality. The original commenter wasn’t talking about business practices but app quality. Which is why isaid “privacy aside”. Privavcy is very important and i would never have someone use chrome or edge but that wasnt the topic.
You could paint it gold with premium genuine alpaca leather interiors, and I would still not use it.
It’s only function is to download a better browser.
You don’t need it for that.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox.enalthough microsoft even stole winget :-(
Always learning. Thanks!
He didn’t say it was the best, only that it was better than Chrome.
Not the Onion?
Well, cars suck and 1million would be nice but still won’t but me a home where I live.
Microsoft is a very large lumbering giant that seems to lack a cohesive vision forward, especially on the consumer front. Every single piece of consumer facing software lacks a cohesive design language, and seems to be regressing in usability. No one is truly primed to replace them yet in either the corporate or consumer businesses however, something like the MacBook Neo can certainly take a few points of market share away from the standard consumer
This is what happens when they get MBAs in charge. Same thing happened at Apple. The original guy with a vision in charge (Gates, Jobs) goes away and the company suffers for it.
What vission did Gates have beyond using money to crush competition? Being a pedophile?
At the time of Gates, they wanted to monopolize the operating system market because that was the way to lock people in. People owned hardware and in order to make the most money your needs your OS to be their platform so they had no choice but to pay you.
Now in 2026 everyone’s OS is Chrome. So the goal is to make everyone depend on your cloud storage, on your productivity suite, on your chatbot, your automation platform, your cloud database. Then you give them just a state and then rent it to them in perpetuity.
This is why they don’t mind making RAM too expensive. Drives people to inexpensive devices and subscriptions for services for the hardware they can no longer afford and don’t have the skills to maintain.
Don’t forget jumping over office chairs
Steal the best parts of every other system, make Windows easy to develop for, and corner the business market.
Win a car that
may bewill be spying on you (don’t worry, no one will ever win the million dollars).We started to use ad blockers in the early 2000s because no one could trust they were the 999,999 visitor to the website.
It sounded (and stills sounds) scammy.
Let me guess… Existing users are excluded from participating? Cause I ain’t got no pop up banner anywhere. Or is cause I’m European?
You’re not as much excluded as not included (in the shortlist. Are you a relative to gates?).
Would I be here with a free account if I were? ✌️
Checkout Heluim Browser (GitHub) instead, but keep in mind that they don’t have auto-update. But you can add their windows GitHub repo to your RSS reader to be alerted of any new updates: https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows/releases.atom
Edit 1:… Why am I being downvoted?
Wow, the days of dodgy toolbar extensions never truly went away. They just evolved to become part of your operating system.
The thing that actually baffles me about this is how this looks in the face of their next major competitor in the consumer market, Apple and their macOS.
macOS (or any other Apple product) has never (to my knowledge) had anything like this and it would be extremely out of character for Apple to suddenly change that. With all other manufacturers raising prices (including the Surface as of today) and the MacBook Neo directly competing with the mid tier PC laptops, this is what Microsoft decides to do?
At some point, one would hope that the average user starts to ask the question, can I have a computer that won’t pull this bullshit on me? But I think unfortunately most typical users (especially anyone daily driving Edge) just think there’s too much friction to move away from Windows, and so they stay, continuing to get fucked in the ass by megacorps.
But hey, I’m not in the running for a free car like them. Not like I’ll install Edge onto my Mac or Arch Linux computer and sync my shit with OneDrive.
Perhaps make a better product…
Rigged. They won’t hand it out to some rando.
That’s the thing. You have to be some kind of influencer with followers on state backed social media to win.
Someone like MKBHD, to use one example, isn’t going to talk about the guy on Lemmy with no followers who won. He (or someone like him) might talk about a Twitter user with thousands of followers who won so they can cross traffic.
Microsoft and Google want you to use their browser so they can sell your data. Your data, on its own, isn’t worth paying you anything for. So they won’t do it. What contests like this pay for is organic exposure. Which people like us can never give them, which is why we don’t win things.
Not worth it
