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In just a few words, Microsoft Edge froze while the engineer was working with virtual machines in the browser, and judging from how fast he proceeded to downloading Google Chrome, this wasn't the first time it happened. Because, you know, sometimes reloading the page or restarting the browser does help, but you can't risk hitting the same error twice, right?
"I love it when demos break," he said. "So while we're talking here, I'm gonna go install Chrome," he continued before he started laughing, with many people in the audience cheering.
"And we're going to not make Google better," he added when unchecking the box to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google, as if this made things less worse. "We're going to do this again, I'm sorry about this. The age of these machines are [sic] wacked down a little bit, there are some things that just don't work."
[ I'm sure there are at least a few Soylentils here who have had things go "pear shaped" during a presentation or demo. Let us hear your horror stories. - Ed]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Wootery on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:32AM (21 children)
He goes on to say that Edge was in some locked-down mode; it wasn't just that Edge is full of bugs.
The fact that even an expert finds it easier to install Chrome (without any permissions issues) than to reconfigure Edge, is what's really damning here.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:01PM (9 children)
It shouldn't freeze up because of some configuration option regardless.
(Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:12PM (5 children)
Normally I'd agree but that would go against decades of official Microsoft policy.
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(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:26PM (4 children)
+1 agree,
-1 sad but true.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:48PM (3 children)
+11 Hahaha! Serves him right for using MS products in the first place!
;)
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(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:34PM (2 children)
Why is this modded funny? I have this same thought every time I can't sign in at the Dr.'s office kiosk because instead of the sign-in screen, it is presenting patients the "Windows needs to be updated" or "Sod off, Windows is busy updating" (i.e. "Windows is unsuitable for actual commercial use") screens.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:56PM (1 child)
It's funny because (from the headline) he was a Microsoft engineer. You see, to imply that a Microsoft engineer shouldn't use Microsoft products goes against our expectations, which makes it funny.
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(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:24PM
Ah, thanks. I got the funny "Microsoft engineer" connection in the headline originally ("MS Engineer Installs Google Chrome"), but had lost it by the time I got down to the "serves him right" with which by that point my ADD had me simply agreeing....
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:31PM
I wouldn't complain as loudly if it could freeze up due to mis-configuration. After all, Mrs. Configuration has been known to screw any and all kinds of software.
What is most damnifying is that it is the default configuration that has been borked by porcupines.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:42PM
Most likely the dashboard is a javascript mess and Edge javascript (or jscript) engine is shait?
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:27PM
Good point.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:42PM (6 children)
Can we PLEASE stop spreading this "quote" which is pretty much a direct lie. He said "The EDGE on these machines is LOCKED down a little bit."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:51PM
Locked down is MS speak for "fuck why do I gotta use this shit!?!?....oh yeah...paycheck..."
Locked down should not mean unusable crash shit.
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:59PM (2 children)
Perhaps I'm being oblivious, but isn't that what I just said?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:06PM (1 child)
I was just directly calling out the mis-quote in the story to reinforce what you were saying. It is fucking retarded that it is still getting spread, it is not even valid English.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:16PM
I asked you for clarification. What are you talking about?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:50PM (1 child)
Did he say "locked-down" or "locked-up"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:45PM
It's completely sideways.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:02PM (1 child)
Just because he's a Microsoft employee doesn't mean that he's an expert, nor a company shill. It's very possible that he, his boss, and even maybe his boss' boss don't really care all that much for their employer's products and they're all just there for the paycheck while it lasts or until something better comes along.
With 120,000 employees, you can't keep them all toeing the company line.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:45PM
> With 120,000 employees, you can't keep them all toeing the company line.
I wanted to say "you can if you're Apple", but there was that one guy a few days ago who let his daughter take photos of iPhone X...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:15PM (1 child)
So you are saying the problem was a feature, not a bug? Typical.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @07:48AM