Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh “bribery” backlash.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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        1 month ago

        I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.

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            I mean they’re exclusively writing tools for power users for eventual implementation to mainline as they develop and test simplification that doesn’t alienate the power user… So managers can’t really say they’re doing anything bad or dumb ever because it’s power user features then porting.

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      Just imagining Clippy in front of a cracked mirror, “jessss a little more rouge and you can’t have too much mascara…”

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      1 month ago

      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.