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-domi- t1_j9cv9ap wrote

Reply to comment by joelluber in [OC] The End of Internet Explorer - Market share decline to permanent disablement by Metalytiq

Quick google reports (well) under 6% of users use Edge, which is absolutely laughable for what's the default browser on more than 50% of users' OSs.

Good =/= popular, and bad =/= unpopular. Edge is good despite being utterly unpopular. And i think it's unpopular because M$ made short-term decisions with ie which burned their image. That's the point of my original comment. It's now taken them Billions to get Edge to this point, and this point is still laughably bad. Look forward to the exact same thing happening with Google the moment a viable alternative surfaces.

To reiterate - i hope they all enjoyed their respective moments in the sun, because they traded away decades of unpopularity for them.

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joelluber t1_j9cvjoi wrote

I thought you meant chrome

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-domi- t1_j9czm0r wrote

Oof, my bad. Yeah, i didn't realize it came across that way. I meant that i recognize that Edge is a great browser, as you say, but that hasn't translated into popularity, due to what i think is the bad aftertaste from ie.

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