c/technology · by sanitation@lemmy.today · 56d

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B…

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/steve-ballmer-called-google-chrome-a-rounding-error-17-years-later-internet-explorer-is-dead-and-microsoft-edge-can-barely-catch-up

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Nytefyre@piefed.social · 108 pts · 56d (13 replies)

And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome, Firefox is having an identity crisis on its hands, Edge is pretty much dead.

Browsers have gotten interestingly bad.

woelkchen@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 56d (6 replies)

Edge is pretty much dead.

I honestly don't know why. If you are a Windows user and don't care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it's in no way worse than Chrome.

thejml@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 56d (5 replies)

Honestly, not going with chrome means only one massive corp is stealing your data, not two.

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 56d (4 replies)

I thought Chromium still phoned home to Google

Hund@feddit.nu · 10 pts · 56d (3 replies)

It does, and there's nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.

Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 56d (2 replies)

All chromium based do, even something like Helium can't remove that?

Hund@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 56d

Helium should be fine. They're, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for 'regular' people who care about their privacy.

badgermurphy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

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timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 56d (1 reply)

I mean, edge is a viable option for enterprise. Works with gpos, etc. So easy to roll out and lockdown there.

I still think it's garbage like every chromium browser but that's its big sell.

fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 54d

If company is gonna lock downs extensions and force SSO on us, making Firefox non-viable (not that I'm allowed to install it anyway)... Fuck it edge we go, they have a Microsoft SSO stack anyway, it's not like Microsoft isn't tracking what I'm doing already lmao.

artyom@piefed.social · 7 pts · 56d (3 replies)

And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome

What "people" are you referring to? Because Chrome is the most popular browser, by a landslide.

0x0@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 55d (2 replies)

Look beyond your landslide

luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 55d

Sure, some people hate it. But for most, using it seems quite the no-brainer. Without that "some", the statement sounds too universal to be accurate.

artyom@piefed.social · 0 pts · 55d

Yes, I guess if you ignore Chrome, everyone hates Chrome...?

X@piefed.world · 43 pts · 56d (5 replies)

He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.

morto@piefed.social · 28 pts · 56d (3 replies)

He also called linux a cancer

PushButton@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 56d

Well, on that one, he's right.

We are everywhere, we are growing everyday, I don't see what can stop that from now on.

Even Microsoft is open sourcing their shit. Azure is more than 50% Linux.

Fucking Microsoft has a Linux distro now!

We are cancer, resistance is futile something something waves hand

LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social · 6 pts · 56d

Cancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.

nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 56d

I came here to up-vote this comment.

This is what I recall as well.

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 56d

I will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it's time.

green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 26 pts · 56d

Fuck Google. Fuck Microslop.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 56d (7 replies)

Monkeyboy said that?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 56d (4 replies)

“Developers.”

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 56d (3 replies)

That was a different coke-fueled rampage. But yes.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 56d

Give it up for MEEEEE!

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Is that the one where he's screaming "I... LOVE... THIS... COMPANYYY!!!" instead? Or was that the same one?

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 55d

That's the one. The "developers! developers! developers!" one was a different one.

X@piefed.world · 13 pts · 56d

His spraining his ankle in that will always be funny.

Arrandee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 56d

Fucking terrifying.

THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 56d

Both are shit anyway, which we all know here. But normies love their Chrome.

unabart@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 56d (1 reply)

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS arrrrrrrgrhhhh

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 56d

sometimes you can just palpably feel the cocaine exuding from early 2000s corp ceo's

sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Edge is just Chrome with a Microslop skin. They went from crushing Netscape so hard it got open sourced (mostly via monopoly shenanigans) to copying Google's homework. And their attempts at mobile anything has been failure (Windows CE) after failure (Windows Phone) after failure (Windows for ARM).

If it weren't for Office and companies' undying love of Active Directory and Exchange, Microslop would be a memory and little more.

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 56d

And outlook. Idk why but companies love outlook. And teams. 🤢🤮

random_character_a@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Gee, never held Steve Ballmer as pilar of accuracy.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 56d

Steve Balmer is a pill.

What is it with Steves in technology being just the worst (Woz is Woz, not Steve).

BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world · 9 pts · 56d

Poor Google, demoralised when another monopoly says it's not going to break into it's monopoly.

But fortunately Google used it's search monopoly to aggressively push Chrome, and now all that data that Microsoft used to scrape, Google now does.

Happy ending for the monopoly.