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Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes (softpedia.com)
A reader shares a report: We've seen lots of blunders on stage, and still happen occasionally, but this must be the best of all. A Microsoft engineer downloaded, installed, and started using Google Chrome during a live presentation after Microsoft Edge, the default Windows 10 browser, stopped responding in the middle of a demo. In just a few words, Microsoft Edge froze while the engineer was working with virtual machines in the browser, and judging from how fast he proceeded to downloading Google Chrome, this wasn't the first time it happened. Because, you know, sometimes reloading the page or restarting the browser does help, but you can't risk hitting the same error twice, right? "I love it when demos break," he said. "So while we're talking here, I'm gonna go install Chrome," he continued before he started laughing, with many people in the audience cheering. "And we're going to not make Google better," he added when unchecking the box to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google, as if this made things less worse. "We're going to do this again, I'm sorry about this. The age of these machines are [sic] wacked down a little bit, there are some things that just don't work."
Like Microsoft Edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84
with Bill Gates himself on stage to watch the BSOD
https://i.imgur.com/9TxWoa9.pn...
Silence is a state of mime.
The snafu begins at 36:46.
A middle finger to Mozilla
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
I tried to use Edge last year. After a couple of hours I went back to Chrome. Visually, it's simply the shits, and it really doesn't work worth a damn. I'd rather use IE.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"The age of these machines are [sic] wacked down a little bit" is totally wrong. What was actually said is "The Edge on these machines are locked down a bit...".
Yup, that is now the official purpose of Edge, as demonstrated by an official Microsoft employee.
Did this engineer not know that Windows 10 also has IE installed? It is just a simple start menu/cortana seach away. Not favoring MS productrs here.. IMHO Edge and IE both suck in very different ways. Edge sucks becuase it is immature and doen't know any better. IE sucks because it apparently has decided that sucking is its purpose in life.
Silence is a state of mime.
he is sooo fired. and in the inevitable reference to windows 95 crashing on the live demo, at least in that case the presenter had Bill himself on stage to save him.. Presenter: "And watch as we plug in this.... (BSoD) whoa...." Bill: " and that's why we're not shipping it just yet..."
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
They're getting pretty desperate: I opened Edge on a new laptop to download another browser and the homepage was not their stupid msn.com site but a pitch to keep using Edge for performance reasons.
he is sooo fired. and in the inevitable reference to windows 95 crashing on the live demo, at least in that case the presenter had Bill himself on stage to save him.. Presenter: "And watch as we plug in this.... (BSoD) whoa...." Bill: " and that's why we're not shipping it just yet..."
Not to be a pedantic prick, but it was Windows 98. Yea, yea, I know - there wasn't much difference at that point.
Actually, if you compare October 2015 https://www.netmarketshare.com... to September 2017 https://www.netmarketshare.com... it looks like most of the IE users left for Chrome and basically none of them moved to Edge.
Isn’t Opera owned by some dodgy Chinese company now?
In Microsoft's defence (and believe me, I don't defend them often), if they're eating their own dog food and running development versions of Edge (like they should be) and/or if the system they're demoing on is a development system, then it shouldn't come as a huge surprise to see something shit the bed like that.
I don't doubt that Google folks have the occasional moment like that running Chrome or Android or whatnot...
Log in or piss off.
he went from one piece of spyware to another.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Group Policy makes Microsoft Presenter Install Chrome.
Hmm, idk. He's not on the Edge team, otherwise he would be fired. But this guy did what he had to do to get through his demo; persisting with Edge and hitting the same issue several times, which it seems like he expected, would not only have trashed his demo, but it would hardly make Edge look good either, so switching to Chrome at that point cut the losses and minimised the damage all round. If heads were going to roll from this, I think it would be on the Edge team.
he is sooo fired. and in the inevitable reference to windows 95 crashing on the live demo, at least in that case the presenter had Bill himself on stage to save him.. Presenter: "And watch as we plug in this.... (BSoD) whoa...." Bill: " and that's why we're not shipping it just yet..."
Not to be a pedantic prick, but it was Windows 98. Yea, yea, I know - there wasn't much difference at that point.
Anyone who complains about Wn95 or Win98 has never tried to live with Windows Millennium which was so bad it made everyone think that Y2K was happening a few months late.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
"And we're going to not make Google better," he added when unchecking the box to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google
I'll bet he unchecked that box in Edge, too. No wonder it crashed! ALWAYS tick the box that says "help make this product better." It makes the product better! :D
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Or that's the least bad sounding explanation he could pull from his ass in the heat of the moment. It doesn't make much sense.
The two more likely explanations:
-They have a bug in the javascript under edge they hadn't ironed out
-There was a bug in their javascript with respect to some dom storage or cookie that the edge browser had picked up along the way that could have also broken chrome, but chrome had a clean slate and had not accumulated crap. Particularly if their framework reacts to cookies, being under 'microsoft.com' probably meant all kinds of completely irrelevant cookies not pertaining to app had accumulated in the browser and were being flung at their server.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
If this was Apple, sure. His manager would have fired him just a few minutes after he walked off stage. Microsoft is more platform agnostic then they used to be, though.
Besides, even if Microsoft did fired him right away, Google might hire him just for the PR value. He's become the cloud hosting equivalent of the old Verizon spokesperson working for Sprint.
It's also chromium based.
Silence is a state of mime.
Having watched hours of more recent Microsoft demos....Azure, PowerShell, etc......within the past couple years, I can tell you that the surprising part is that he started with Edge. The demos Scott Hanselman, Jeffrey Snover, and Mark Russinovich and so on, do are typically run on Macs or Surfaces, running Google Chrome in either case. Actually, I think that doing so is by design, to show off how cross-platform they think at the "new" Microsoft.
Yes! This is an even better (worse) headline!
Group policy on Windows 10 has been a nightmare, as different builds seem to fail in new and exciting ways.
sort of like lip syncing a live performance huh? that never, ever ends badly for the performer.
I'd say Microsoft has spent the better part of a decade repeatedly demonstrating that they're not serious about it.
Log in or piss off.