Fuck Google. Fuck Microslop.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome, Firefox is having an identity crisis on its hands, Edge is pretty much dead.
Browsers have gotten interestingly bad.
I mean, edge is a viable option for enterprise. Works with gpos, etc. So easy to roll out and lockdown there.
I still think it's garbage like every chromium browser but that's its big sell.
Edge is pretty much dead.
I honestly don't know why. If you are a Windows user and don't care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it's in no way worse than Chrome.
Honestly, not going with chrome means only one massive corp is stealing your data, not two.
I thought Chromium still phoned home to Google
It does, and there's nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.
He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.
He also called linux a cancer
Well, on that one, he's right.
We are everywhere, we are growing everyday, I don't see what can stop that from now on.
Even Microsoft is open sourcing their shit. Azure is more than 50% Linux.
Fucking Microsoft has a Linux distro now!
We are cancer, resistance is futile something something waves hand
I came here to up-vote this comment.
This is what I recall as well.
Edge is just Chrome with a Microslop skin. They went from crushing Netscape so hard it got open sourced (mostly via monopoly shenanigans) to copying Google's homework. And their attempts at mobile anything has been failure (Windows CE) after failure (Windows Phone) after failure (Windows for ARM).
If it weren't for Office and companies' undying love of Active Directory and Exchange, Microslop would be a memory and little more.
And outlook. Idk why but companies love outlook. And teams. 🤢🤮
KHTML won the browser war.
Both are shit anyway, which we all know here. But normies love their Chrome.
Monkeyboy said that?
“Developers.”
That was a different coke-fueled rampage. But yes.
Give it up for MEEEEE!
His spraining his ankle in that will always be funny.
Gee, never held Steve Ballmer as pilar of accuracy.
Steve Balmer is a pill.
What is it with Steves in technology being just the worst (Woz is Woz, not Steve).
Poor Google, demoralised when another monopoly says it's not going to break into it's monopoly.
But fortunately Google used it's search monopoly to aggressively push Chrome, and now all that data that Microsoft used to scrape, Google now does.
Happy ending for the monopoly.
Lol it only took 17 years to prove hom wrong.
Loooooooooooooooollll
He could have shrugged it off (on his way to the bank) after one year!