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Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10
Microsoft's Edge web browser has seen little success since its debut on Windows 10 back in 2015. Built from the ground up with a new rendering engine known as EdgeHTML, Microsoft Edge was designed to be fast, lightweight, and secure, but launched with a plethora of issues which resulted in users rejecting it early on. Edge has since struggled to gain any traction, thanks to its continued instability and lack of mindshare, from users and web developers.
Because of this, I'm told that Microsoft is throwing in the towel with EdgeHTML and is instead building a new web browser powered by Chromium, a rendering engine first popularized by Google's Chrome browser. Codenamed Anaheim, this new web browser for Windows 10 will replace Edge as the default browser on the platform. It's unknown at this time if Anaheim will use the Edge brand or a new brand, or if the user interface between Edge and Anaheim is different. One thing is for sure, however; EdgeHTML in Windows 10's default browser is dead.
Report: Windows Lite is Microsoft's long-awaited answer to Chrome OS
The success of Google's Chromebook hardware and Chrome OS software wasn't an inevitability, but the ease of use they afford ended up allowing Google to carve out a niche in a very crowded PC marketplace. Ever since Chrome OS entered the scene, we've been waiting for Microsoft to come out with its own pared down version of Windows, but its half-hearted attempts (Windows 10 S, Windows RT) have all fallen flat.
Those failures haven't stopped Microsoft though, as Petri on Monday reported that the company is working on "a new version of Windows that may not actually be Windows." Based on the documentation he has seen, Petri's Brad Sams believes that Windows Lite — the new OS — is Microsoft's answer to Chrome OS.
According to Sams, Windows Lite will only run Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, while removing all other functionality. He says that this is the first "truly lightweight version of Windows" – one which won't run in enterprise or small business environments, and may not even be available for purchase on its own. Just like Chrome OS, Windows Lite will have to be pre-installed by an OEM.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Tuesday December 04 2018, @10:14AM (4 children)
And why does Microsoft think that a new browser would change any of the above?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @11:16AM (1 child)
A great excuse not to exercise! Doing the same thing (say, running) again and again and expecting different results (like winning a foot race instead of losing it) clearly is insanity, right? ;-)
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 05 2018, @12:28PM
REPETITA JUVANT
-- a possibly smarter guy than Einstein
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 04 2018, @07:20PM
It will succeed because the marketing people will design even better icons and t-shirts this time! The management will reorganize the product teams into a different structure. This time with enough managers to ensure that it succeeds!
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @05:46AM