Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 3, 2019 18:16 UTC (Tue) by hkario (subscriber, #94864)
In reply to: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc by pizza
Parent article: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

1990's called, it wants its arguments back

Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 5, 2019 17:13 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (2 responses)

How what I wrote an argument from the 1990s? And even if it is, how what I wrote incorrect?

To this very day, Microsoft and Apple require users to be running their latest operating system in order to use their latest in-house browsers.

And while the user can always download/use a browser provided by a third party (eg Chrome or Firefox) on those non-Linux distro platforms (Windows/Mac/Android/iOS), the same goes for traditional Linux distros.

Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 12, 2019 4:26 UTC (Thu) by Kamilion (guest, #42576) [Link] (1 responses)

I seem to be running Microsoft Edge 79.0.309.47 (Official build) (64-bit) on Windows 7, contrary to your assertion.

Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 12, 2019 12:08 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

Yes, as of mid-2019 and four years of latest-MS-platform exclusivity, Edge is now just a wrapper around Chromium.

But that's tangential to my point, which is that it was the proprietary (as opposed to F/OSS) platforms that forced OS upgrades to obtain their latest browsers -- contrary to the assertion of the person I replied to.