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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361 Released (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via BetaNews: Windows Insider chief Dona Sarkar announced in a blog post that they are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361 for both PC and Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. This new release includes new features, some improvements to existing features, and various bug fixes that the company hopes to iron out before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. A LastPass extension for the Microsoft Edge browser, and Hyper-V Container, which will let you use Docker natively on Windows 10, has been added. A series of improvements have been made to Windows Ink, and the Settings app, which includes changes to the colors so it's more obvious where you are. The Blu-ray icon and Network Quick Action icon have also been updated. You can read the full list of improvements and fixes for PC here.
I'd love it if Microsoft brought their new Edge web browser to Linux and OS X.
While I don't like Windows at all, and rarely use it, I have found Edge to be a fast, responsive, standards-compliant web browser.
It's more usable than Chrome is, and it's nowhere near as slow and bloated as Firefox is.
I think that it would easily supplant Firefox on Linux and possibly on OS X. While OS X users can also use Safari, Linux users are forced to choose between Chrome/Chromium and Firefox if they want a modern browsing experience. Opera used to be another choice, but the newer versions are essentially Chromium. Those who don't want to use Chrome are condemned to using Firefox. But Edge would give these Firefox users another viable choice that isn't Chrome or Chromium-based.
In the end, the only people using Firefox would be those who use it for ideological reasons. Everyone else would use Chrome/Chromium or Edge instead, because they provide a superior browsing experience compared to Firefox.