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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the edge-cases dept.

Submitted via IRC for soycow1

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."

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-engineer-installs-google-chrome-during-presentation-after-edge-freezes-518291.shtml

[ 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]


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  • (Score: 2) by letssee on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:14PM (4 children)

    by letssee (2537) on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:14PM (#591074)

    And this is just a clever marketing ploy to show their cloud software also works well on chrome?

    It wouldn't really surprise me if MS eventually wants to get rid of maintaining windows and concentrate on cloud services and office software. Those are the actual cashcows after all and windows is just a means to an end (selling office). Windows was very useful for keeping their customers locked in as long as it was a near absolute monopoly, but now that so many folks have de facto switched to android/ios as their main OS it might be more important for them to show their software works there too.
    Most probably it was just the 'demonstration effect' (shit doesn't work when you are on stage, while working fine on the trial run) but a little speculation never hurt anybody :-)

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by martyb on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:44PM (3 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:44PM (#591138) Journal

    I must confess that is a most interesting hypothesis (which I would find amazingly brilliant were it true) but I have my doubts.

    To put a reverse spin on Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org]:

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

    I would offer for consideration:

    Do not attribute to wisdom that which is adequately explained by dumb luck.

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    Wit is intellect, dancing.
    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday November 03 2017, @02:35AM (1 child)

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 03 2017, @02:35AM (#591498)

      There are some shenanigans going on. More and more of their webstack is running in linux. DotNetCore, Visual Studio Code, Kestrel web server, MS SQL, Roslyn compiler (think C#). I think you can host just about everything in linux now. Development still seems partially stuck in windows but there are a lot more cli tools instead of ui. I'm seeing some weird shit in the ms dev world right now.

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    • (Score: 2) by letssee on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:00PM

      by letssee (2537) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:00PM (#594194)

      You're probably right. I was just intrigued by the possibility :-)