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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: 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.