dusty
I don't know why (don't have a real reason) but I have momentarily switched to Microsoft Edge from Firefox.
Are any of you using Microsoft Edge and if so have your experiences been good or not so good.
RFGuy
I have used Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Google Chrome browsers over the years (occasionally Safari when I am on a Mac). Each have pluses and minuses. I liked Edge and used it for several years, but towards the end I had some issues using it with specific websites so I switched back to Chrome. Microsoft abandoned their internal browser development; I think like 2 years ago. Since then, Edge has been based on a Chrome browser engine with essentially a Microsoft "skin" on top of it. So, if you are using Edge today it is really a Chrome browser. So, for PC (Windows) use, it really is down to just two major browsers now (Chrome an Firefox). There are some fringe browsers out there, but I am not listing them here...bulk of the market are with these two browsers on Windows.
edma194
Hate Edge. Had to use all of these in the past for work. In the long run, IE and Chrome were the best, but everyone always did have and still does have annoying faults. Mentioned right above, the browser industry is shaking out and it's really down to Chrome and Firefox. Customers have their preferences, but in the end the browser doesn't drive hardware and software sales significantly.
twistsol
The "Standard" browser for work is Edge. I really don't have any issues with it and it has a fairly clean interface. As noted above it is basically Chrome with a different skin. I need to use Chrome to connect to SAP because there are some rendering issues with Edge. For our software testing tool, only Explorer works because it extensively uses activeX controls.
At home, (which is now 3 feet to the left of work and I love the commute) I have Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Edge all installed on my mac for web development testing.
The net result is that all of them work 99% of the time with nearly all of the sites I need to get to, but none of them can be used for 100% of my work.
edma194
Don't like Edge. Because of my work in the past I had to use Internet Exploiter most of the time, and then increasing use of Chrome, which I use now. Chrome. I had to deal with compatibility issues with most of the browsers out there from time to time, but most of the business world did not switch to Edge. That was the state of things 3 years ago when I retired, perhaps the world has changed, but I think Chrome is currently the browser of record, the one that will have the greatest compatibility among web based apps. That doesn't make it the best browser, just the safe approach for developers.
JPG
Ya gots something against Mozilla(Firefox)?
RFGuy
Pretty sure that was a spammer that restarted this old thread and Edge is NOT a "new" browser. Anyway, you should know that MS abandoned their Edge browser and it is now an open sourced version of Chrome. In other words, the browser guts are Chrome and Edge is simply a graphical wrapper around that internal core. It was definitely an improvement when MS dropped their Edge development four years ago and replaced it with Chrome.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-started-microsoft-edge-chromium
JPG
RFGuy wrote
Pretty sure that was a spammer that restarted this old thread and Edge is NOT a "new" browser. Anyway, you should know that MS abandoned their Edge browser and it is now an open sourced version of Chrome. In other words, the browser guts are Chrome and Edge is simply a graphical wrapper around that internal core. It was definitely an improvement when MS dropped their Edge development four years ago and replaced it with Chrome.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-started-microsoft-edge-chromium
Now if µsoft would just do the same with Linux!
Hobbyman2
I would still be using 98 if I could , It didnt have a bunch of stuff in it that to me is useless .
JPG
Or gets in the way! Or adds additional clicking.
RFGuy
Win 98? Are you serious? ;)
I know we all have our own preferences but I would say Win 95 was good, but Win 98 was a step back. Win XP was a big improvement and probably the most stable of all of MS Windows OS'es. I know some businesses are still using Win XP all these years later, but scary from a security standpoint. My favorite now is Win 10 and I believe it is nearly as good as XP, though I believe XP was a bit more stable. I started on Commodore computers and then did a little VAX work. I grudgingly got onto Windows PC's with DOS and Win 3.1. It was hard for me at first, but I have learned to become platform independent. It took me sometime to make that mental shift, but technology changes all the time and it is best to not be married to one OS, one PC or even one technology per se. Even applies to woodworking, e.g. I was a SS devotee for a long time, but I now I have expanded to Festool as well. :D I have tried most of the OS'es out there for personal and work use. So, I love Unix/Linux and Win 10, but I even tolerate Mac OS though I don't like it.
JPG
If thee desires stability, use DOS! :D
RFGuy
JPG wrote
If thee desires stability, use DOS! :D
Ha!!! Well, MS-DOS is a single command line system, so I guess it all depends on what one program one chooses to run right? I am sure there are more than a few poorly written software programs that can crash MS-DOS as easy as any other. In comparison UNIX (without a window manager) is a multi tasking OS unlike MS-DOS. I am no OS expert, but I thought the memory management is better than MS-DOS so I am giving the nod to UNIX here. :D
P.S. Note I am specifically calling out MS-DOS here. There were other versions of DOS done for other computer platforms that rivaled what MS did for the IBM PC and its clones. Don't know how stable all the different DOS varieties actually were, but probably same argument can be made for/against them.
JPG
UMMV, but I NEVER experienced a DOS crash. Now thingies running under DOS, that is another universe.
If multi tasking, one had better have absolute memory management control!!!
Ed in Tampa
There was MS Dos that ran on most any pc, then there was IBM Dos that had code added that tied into IBM bios and made math and other functions much faster. However at the time we were all enchanted with the speed of practically any PC so the speed difference was lost to most PC nerds of the time. Then MS windows came out as did IBM OS which got renamed Warp after a few upgrades. I know little or nothing of Linux but what I knew of warp it seems to be the building block for linux. Unix was a commercial offering for business intelligent terminals.
I believe Apple based their OS on Unix which made it very hard to infect with viruses ( I did not say impossible) but very hard. I think they have moved away from that since writing their OS for the M1 &2 chips. Before you barf out over MS Dos remember it is a product of two teenage nerds in their father's garage. The contract with IBM to supply the operating system for the PC is what launched the then infant company.
I think my recall is good but remember I bridged out of IBM in 92 and formally retired in 97 so it has been awhile. But before I left I was deep into developing commercial services for the PC and I think the operating system WARP was just being withdrawn.
rlkeeney
OS/2 Warp is still around. It is now ArcaOS 5.0. I have supported OS/2, DOS, Windows, Solaris, and Linux for many years in the desktop environment and many servers. Linux is by far the best. It's everywhere. Linux is in your TV, Phone, DVR, and any electronics you have labeled smart has some version of Linux.
JPG
And android?
rlkeeney
JPG wroteAnd android?
Yes, Android is Linux based OS.
