Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month

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[–]soyboy77 10 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 6 fun -  (5 children)

People use Linux to get away from Microsoft but ok

[–]johnnybravo 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

True

I didn't have any reason to switch to Linux until windows 7 got its life support unplugged. It was a very good, no nonsense operating system (well not as much as some Linux distros maybe idk) which worked well and most importantly, it felt like a tool. It mostly did what you wanted it to. Subsequent Windows versions feel like toys, like some child came up with that design. Everything feels wrong, somehow, and designed for a touchscreen

[–]soyboy77 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

XP was their high-water mark imho

[–]johnnybravo 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

XP was even better, yes

BTW did u mean benchmark?

[–]soyboy77 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

lol no I meant XP was Microsoft's shining achievement, their magnum opus...

[–]Againstniggers 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Preach

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

As if we hadn't had already enough browsers on linux.

If i go into pacman it gives me like 4 pages of hits if i type "browser" into search.

Why is microshit stuff always superfluous and redundant ? Why do they always copy stuff from others and then try to sell it ?

They try to do this same bs since IE.

Where is the credibility in this whole company ?

[–]zyxzevn 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It is their marketing strategy.
They copy everything, steal everything, and then use money to establish a monopoly to push away any competition.

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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Free download :-)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks.

[–]AAjax 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

And no one will use it. There are not too many accidental users of Linux.

[–]wuzizname 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

LOL, "I wish there was a microsoft built web browser for Linux!", said no linux user ever. Who's asking for this?

[–]forgottenpasswordguy 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Yeahhhh. I don't trust microsoft anymore after seeing their love of forced automatic updates and telemetry. I'll pass.

[–]asterias 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So MS made another Chromium clone and now markets it to Linux users. Probably they are trying to capitalize on current Mozilla problems.

[–]Pis-dur 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

No, thanks, I have my Firefox <3