Microsoft's couldn't compete with Google.
The new Microsoft Edge browser, based on the same Chromium web engine of Chrome, Opera and Brave, is now available for download. Edge will be automatically pushed by a future Windows update too.
This standardization is good news for software developers, but unfortunately, too many people will continue using the old Edge browser (with the "E" icon) or even worst, the older Internet Explorer, both based on a "complicated to support" Microsoft engine. Skipping the Explorer support can save 50% or more of development costs and troubles.
Firefox uses Gecko, a different web engine. It's developer Mozilla this week laid off nearly 100 staff since neither donations or premium offers are doing well.
The 90% of Firefox revenue comes from Google, in exchange for being kept as the default Firefox search engine. No diversification of funding and no other ideas are raising money so far. Google is the developer of Chromium, used by the Firefox competitors.
In other words, Google keeps up Firefox financially for now; Microsoft could replace Google's funding by paying Firefox to set Bing as the default search engine but would be a similar scenario of having your salary paid by your main competitor. Any other way for Firefox to get funded, by someone else?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge
Their new ICON even looks like a C suppose to E :D
Submitted January 17, 2020 at 03:19AM by ThingsInMyRoom https://ift.tt/2FUBOub via TikTokTikk
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