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Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A now-inactive page at a Microsoft Azure development sites shows a page that reveals the first two extensions for the Microsoft Edge browser to be Pinterest and a port of the Reddit Enhancement Suite for Google Chrome. The page was identified by Twitter user H0x0d, and is now only accessible via Google Cache.

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  1. What makes this legitimate? by brantgurga · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is nothing in the page's content or about its place of publication that suggests it to be potentially legitimate. I could have easily come up with a page published on Azure that had been unpublished to have this situation. This could be a hoax. I wouldn't trust anything about it until properly acknowledge or published by Microsoft.

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  2. Re:Sounds like the Microsoft plan by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Step 1 - embrace...

    Seriously? How exactly does this sound like "embrace, extend, extinguish"? What are they embracing? What have they extended (other than their own browser)? What could they possibly extinguish?

    According to the cached document, the extensions were attributed to pinterest.com and redditenhancementsuite.com - who were also the authors of the same extensions for all the other browsers. Do you just see the name Microsoft and blinding spout out FUD even though there is not a single similarity to the old EEE scenario?