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Oct 06, 2020

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cazafurcias42
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Oct 06, 2020
Once, I heard a story from someone involved with software development. He stated that marking some progress inside big tech companies is really painful because of the many bureaucracy walls after every single step. I think this is what is happening here, this team of developers does not have the freedom to go ahead and do whatever they think is best for the company, but instead need to wait for the Microsoft umbrella for approval and consent. I know nothing about software development, but in view of the long waiting times for just minimal and basic changes is obvious that they have no control over their decisions.
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    HotCakeX
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    Oct 06, 2020

    cazafurcias42 

     

    cazafurcias42 wrote:
    Once, I heard a story from someone involved with software development. He stated that marking some progress inside big tech companies is really painful because of the many bureaucracy walls after every single step. I think this is what is happening here, this team of developers does not have the freedom to go ahead and do whatever they think is best for the company, but instead need to wait for the Microsoft umbrella for approval and consent. I know nothing about software development, but in view of the long waiting times for just minimal and basic changes is obvious that they have no control over their decisions.

    I don't think it's that.

     

    when we judge the progress of Edge, we shouldn't only see this small list of feature requests, there are a lot of features, improvements, new small details being added to Edge every week. majority of the new features that I see and notice in Edge either are not on this list**, which suggests the developers have their own set of rules and schedules to follow for implementing new features, or they are already in Edge but due to some reasons, they are not marked off as "addressed" in this list.

     

    that is just one aspect of it, there could be others such as technical limitations, the fact that Edge developers need to stay in pace with Chromium updates and follow them etc etc.

     

    so yes, don't think it's "lack of freedom" and "corporate bureaucracy" in this case.

     

    I'm pretty happy with the rate at which they are adding new features to this browser, actually very impressed, not gonna lie.

     

    I see Firefox, pretty dead browser in terms of new features, once every few months they add something.

     

    I see Chrome, ever since Microsoft started this new Edge project, they realized in order not to fall behind, they should step up their game and introduce more features to the browser. still not doing it as fast as Microsoft though but faster than Firefox for sure, and most of their new features are exact copy of Edge which is funny.

     

    ** (some of the recent ones: sleeping tabs, favorites sidebar)