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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… (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Monkeyboy said that?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Developers.”

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fucking terrifying.

[–] unabart@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS arrrrrrrgrhhhh

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] X@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He also called linux a cancer

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Nytefyre@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago

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 -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look beyond your landslide

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

Fuck Google. Fuck Microslop.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"640kB should be enough for anybody"

-- Bill Gates

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.