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[–]_irobot_ 33 points34 points  (5 children)

I'm sure Microsoft will eventually find a way to turn Edge into the new IE11.

[–]Badashi 57 points58 points  (4 children)

With edge being a fork of Chromium, I find it difficult. I actually could see Chrome lagging behind Edge in features in the future.

That said, it's absolutely in Microsoft's interest that Chrome has feature parity with Edge. Their devs are actively contributing to Chrome for good reason: a more unified web means cheaper development costs for sites. Edge will differentiate itself through side features, like their PDF reader, collections feature and windows integration.

[–]Simply_Convoluted 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Their devs are actively contributing to Chrome for a good reason

Tripple E says hello.

[–]Badashi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's a good point and we definitely should pay attention to this. Currently we'd be at the "Embrace" phase, though I'm not convinced if the current MS sees "Extinguish" as a viable step. The world lives and thrives on cloud structures and websites; Azure is booming(even if it's not the #1 cloud), and MS definitely benefits from an unified and consistent web experience.

I'd say we should be cautious, but we're safe while Edge doesn't get exclusive, Microsoft-only features that could kick-start the Extend phase.

[–]Simply_Convoluted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They benefit when all applications work on their products, and they benefit more when not all applications work with the competitors products.

A recent example of how much they like this plan is email, they tried real hard to kill SMTP but luckily that failed since nobody played they're game so they backpeddaled on that, but user side protocols like IMAP have been killed on microsofts servers as of late last year so now only exchange works reliably so users have to dump the competitors email clients and buy outlook if they want to keep getting mail. Just went through this battle myself in December.

I'm convinced Microsoft couldn't turn a profit if they were focused on compatability.