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Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge (www.neowin.net)
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Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh "bribery" backlash.

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[–] 179 points 6 months ago (17 children)

They're just making themselves look trashy and desperate.

What might work is making their software better than everyone else's. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    All of whom Microsoft doesnt posses.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah the Power Toys devs seem solid

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I mean they're exclusively writing tools for power users for eventual implementation to mainline as they develop and test simplification that doesn't alienate the power user.... So managers can't really say they're doing anything bad or dumb ever because it's power user features then porting.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Just imagining Clippy in front of a cracked mirror, "jessss a little more rouge and you can't have too much mascara...."

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

    But if we are being honest, if you don't care about privacy, it is a good browser. Its better than chrome. You can check the performance of of both on the same machine. It also has better pdf rendering.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It’s trash. It front pages clickbait and bullshit, has no privacy, and with so many other options why bother?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I am not saying you should use it, i was addressing app quality. The original commenter wasn't talking about business practices but app quality. Which is why isaid "privacy aside". Privavcy is very important and i would never have someone use chrome or edge but that wasnt the topic.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    You could paint it gold with premium genuine alpaca leather interiors, and I would still not use it.

    It's only function is to download a better browser.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You don't need it for that.
    winget install Mozilla.Firefox.en

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