Microsoft’s Edge team gets it

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I’m disappointed with Edge as it now stands – lots of reasons, which I’ll talk about in a future InfoWorld review. Microsoft’s been at it for more tha
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There is a revolution in browsers happening but as cory doctorow points out it’s not necessarily for the better – https://thetech.com/2016/07/06/electronic-frontier-foundation

I’ve always loathed walled gardens and the increasing applification of the web and i fear we’re only headed further towards that shiny future.

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edge is just IE11 with all the features removed.

IE11 uses the “edge” rendering engine since it came out.

Anything that is part of IE that can be used to block ads is removed from edge.

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Wow, for a moment Woody, I read your headline and thought the Edge team was getting the axe.

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Ha!

Naw, they’re in it for the long term…

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“I always thought of Progressive Web Apps as a Google-driven, primarily Chrome-based capability. I was wrong. Microsoft’s very much in the loop, and Edge will be the vehicle.”

As described in this post, Progressive Apps have been around on mobile devices for some time now. But bringing this concept into a full-blown desktop OS is relatively new.

The line between in-browser and desktop apps got blurred about the time apps became more like Apple Apps, Android Apps and MS Universal Apps and less like traditional desktop applications. And the line gets blurrier and blurrier with time. It’s nothing new that Edge introduced.

Ubuntu Linux with the Unity Interface and their new “Snapps” is apparently trying to move in this direction as well.

Dynamic, on-demand downloading or connecting to apps does seem to be the way new features or on-demand features (subscriptions or pay per use) may be headed.

Who needs to charge subscritpion fees for the core OS when all its most useful features cost money and have to be requested and downloaded or accessed post-install and when you really think you need them?

When we feel we’re over a barrel, it isn’t hard to extract money from us just to get that crucial assignment or project done by the deadline. And it will often be only then that consumers and students (and workers) will realize just how many useful features are not included in the base product we got for free.

My TV services (AT&T UVerse) operate like this. You only realize just how badly you need that new channel you didn’t get in your basic bundle when there’s a show starting in five minutes you can only get by using that only too convenient Account Manager and paying up NOW.

Very similar scenarios.

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Yep. I hope I didn’t leave you with the impression that I thought Al Gore created the internet – or that MS created PWA!

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