How does this comment contribute to the discussion in any meaningful way? Microsoft's browser is actually quite advanced when it comes to new JavaScript features. The biggest problem for developers with Edge is that it requires Windows, a slow internet based testing service, or a VM to test. But really if it works in Chrome, Safari and Firefox it generally works in Edge as well.
Well, I suppose it's just a reminder for those who (fortunately) didn't have to "enjoy" the Internet Explorer years a decade ago, where 99% of the internet was designed for a bad, proprietary and buggy browser which got there not for its merits, but for the nastiest market dominance tricks. I'm afraid it would be happening again should we all give Microsoft the chance.
And those who claim that IE got dominance "not for its merits" clearly never used Netscape. IE6 lasted so long that it stagnated, but when they came out, IE5 and IE6 were well ahead of the competition.
I tell you how. Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start playing their monopoly game. And the cycle will start again.
The entire ecosystem has changed. Microsoft really isn't in a position to "embrace and extend" and they probably never will be again.
And they're taking more radical steps towards ongoing transparency and fairness than most other companies I could name, including things like their compiler & runtime licensing, pledges to never use over API use, directly supporting their cloud service competitors.
I'm not sure what value your grudge gives to you, but let me offer you a new target for hate: The only people given a free license to lock down the ecosystem from hardware all the way out to setting prices and fees in the software market is Apple, I guess. THEY won't betray us!
> Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start playing their monopoly game.
Microsoft employs smart people. It has become clear that long-term, that approach simply doesn't work. There are legal consequences to being an abusive monopoly, and on top of that we've seen that the software ecosystem routes around the bottleneck pretty rapidly.
