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Microsoft Finally Admits to the World It Never Could Make a Web Browser

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

Laundry detergent podsAnyone who ever really wrote software knew Microsoft couldn’t develop a Web browser to save its ass. It took a long time but Microsoft has finally admitted to the world it lost the browser wars. Microsoft had to tightly couple and commit blatant crimes to force their worthless Internet Explorer with it never ending massive security holes on the world. Now, they have basically created a stripped down Opera. Just like Opera they are using Chromium libraries under the hood. Unlike Opera, Edge still sucks. One of the most popular search phrases you will find is

How to uninstall or disable Edge in Windows 10

Every person has different interests, but if you are forced to use Windows 10, you will all perform that search. Edge sucks. IE blew chunks. Hopefully the EU will drag Microsoft back in to force them to de-integrate Edge from Windows 10 just as they forced them to make IE removable from other Windows versions.

I chose the first image which came from an article about laundry pods being linked to eye injuries because of the new logo for Edge.

Microsoft Edge new logo

Given the obvious source of its inspiration we can expect bad things to happen. The laundry pods cause eye injuries and Edge will probably cause IE injuries to people.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.