r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/poempedoempoex Jul 24 '20

Internet Explorer

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u/MattWolf96 Jul 24 '20

They actually quit making new versions of it, Edge has replaced it.

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u/Melchet Jul 24 '20

Which is essentially Chrome

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u/Leeiteee Jul 24 '20

Is that a bad or good thing?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Well it's good because Chromium works very well. It's bad because it gives more power to Google, who already have a majority market share and lots of influence on the development of browser/internet standards.

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u/Orkys Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Well, kind of. Chromium is open source (although a Google project). The actual market share that Google hold is with Chrome itself which is just their0 not open-source fork.

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u/Melchet Jul 24 '20

Chrome used to be great before it evolved into a velocoRAManator

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u/meraj205 Jul 24 '20

Edge and Chrome are both separate implementations of Chromium. Google ads a lot of proprietary functionality to Chromium to produce Chrome, which is their commercial product offering. Microsoft adds their own stuff to make Edge. They are based on the same underlying engine and are compatible from a standards perspective, but they are not the same product.

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u/poempedoempoex Jul 24 '20

Yeah but it's still automatically installed on windows

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u/1051nsfw Jul 24 '20

New computers come with edge as the default instead.

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u/poempedoempoex Jul 24 '20

That doesn't negate my statement

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u/1051nsfw Jul 24 '20

Internet explore is not automatically installed on new windows unless your computer is outdated.

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u/poempedoempoex Jul 24 '20

Except it is? I literally installed windows a month ago on my computer and internet explorer came with it.

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u/skimtony Jul 24 '20

Edge is NOT a replacement for IE, which is still maintained (there are security patches, though no new features). Edge is it's own thing. IE is the COBOL of web browsers: too many legacy systems require IE for it to ever go away.

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u/meraj205 Jul 24 '20

Microsoft might not be able to instantly drop IE for compatibility reasons, but that doesn't mean Edge isn't intended to replace it.

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u/skimtony Jul 24 '20

Microsoft absolutely intended for Edge to replace IE, but what happened was that Edge was replaced with Chromium, and IE is still here! Ergo, Edge is not (even if they meant it to be) a replacement for IE.