Edge is just symptomatic of a trend in MSFT that has been evident since the introduction of the ribbon in office and the utter failure of Windows 8 that there appears to be no one left in MSFT with authority who has any relationship, concern or understanding
for support or end users or their expectations of laptop and desktop software.
I recently examined a new out of carton Lenovo thinkpad 10 Windows 10 tablet with keyboard dock.
Despite being a new product out of the carton with windows 10 pre-installed it proceeded to spend 11 hours installing windows updates, including an entirely new build of the operating system and following this and a vast number of reboots the keyboard dock
ceased to function. Neither reinstalling drivers or any other obvious remedy caused the dock to function again. Indeed only the purchase of another (albeit folio type keyboard) allowed the device to function.
It decided despite being set for Ireland that no matter what once joined to a domain the keyboard would be unable to enter a \ (as in domain\username) and had to be removed and the onscreen keyboard utilised on each occasion.
The hideous and laughable tablet mode switch had to be disabled for each user account that logged onto it in turn. VPN clients installed crashed and there was no way top peconfigure hidden SSID wireless networks.
The configuration UI was appalling........the regional keyboard setting so charged from the win7 and preceding simple interface that support staff were familiar with to an over graphically rich mess that failed to function and was almost impossible to
navigate given the incredibly difficult to use narrow vertical scroll bar.
Neither did screen scaling on RDP function well.
And of course edge and live tiles ON A DOMAIN BUSINESS SETUP prompting for one drive and promoting a GAMES CONSOLE called an XBOX. Does MSFT wish to encourage domain business users to play video games and upload business confidential files to random cloud
locations?
I've personally given up on MSFT. The only and last operating system product of theirs I will ever use is Win7.
Indeed I have alredy completed disk images of e.g Linux and android based RDP network clients and am undertaking function specific server builds or non MSFT products for specific network functionality.
A dear friend of mind recently contacted me. A month earlier they had (prompted by endless nagging) upgraded a functional Win7 asus laptop to Win7. Their career necessary applications ceased to function and the incredibly poor search (how it has declined
to the point of uselessness since 2000 pro) meant they could no longer effectively manage their files. When I informed them that it was to late to remove win10, they were actually reduced to tears. There appears to be an upsurge in SMEs being reduced to metaphorical
rubble by the prompts to install windows 10 to an extent that I was pondering whether
this has actually contributed to the surprisingly low US GDP figures this quarter.
I assume the course windows has taken at this juncture is a deliberate strategy to alienate all remaining end users and IT professionals from Microsoft operating systems as part of some cunning plan we are yet to be aware of. I can't see any other purpose
to software such as edge with a UI that is such a catastrophic and clearly deliberate failure to understand the usage requirements.
As a business operating system it is clearly a practical joke to include XBOX live tiles.
Why should I use an app to report my feedback by the way? Is this site not run by Microsoft?
Well done MS (ironic) you finally completed the circle by making something worse than OS/2 warp.
Just stop MS. You can't even do keyboards anymore. DOS was actually superior. Win 3.1 was light years ahead of Win10 in terms of the user acceptance I have witnessed of the interface.
As regards edge. A web browser designed for people who don't use computers in a professional capacity. Limited and regressive interface that actually mandates using a competitors product for a vast number of scenarios.
Just stop. So evidentially in terminal decline at this point it is like watching a man die while spluttering obscenities provoked by a terminal mental disease. And that is what the edge UI and windows 10/8 is. An obscenity.
No manager who was employed by MS during the evolution of win10/8 or those involved in soliciting product feedback could be taken seriously by me any more. Perhaps due to organisational rot their morale is so low they just don't care anymore.