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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: 2) by tibman on Friday November 03 2017, @02:35AM (1 child)
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @07:59AM
Nowadays they've stopped making usable GUIs and started telling people to use PowerShell[1].
Sounds like the Linux bunch have taken over... ;)
The Windows 9x UI was actually quite an improvement over previous stuff. Nowadays you need stuff like Classic Shell to make the newer versions of Windows tolerable.
Maybe the Microsoft people with a clue have cashed out and retired/left or moved to Microsoft Research to do more interesting stuff.
[1] Having to use the shell is fine if you want to configure many machines or do something esoteric, but there should be a UI for something not so obscure that you'd do for one machine. I've forgotten what it was though :). I do remember that even a few years ago they did something like that with IIS configuration backups/restore:
Old had a GUI and was discoverable:
https://www.serverintellect.com/support/iis/how-do-i-backup-my-iis-6-configuration/ [serverintellect.com]
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732543(v=ws.11).aspx [microsoft.com]
Newer was CLI and wasn't as discoverable:
https://blogs.iis.net/bills/how-to-backup-restore-iis7-configuration [iis.net]
(they did add a GUI later: https://www.iis.net/downloads/community/2009/07/iis7-backup-restore-ui [iis.net] )