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Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge (www.neowin.net)
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Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh "bribery" backlash.

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[โ€“] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Edge is a Chrome engine browser like dozens of others out there. Why not write a new browser engine to give customers a choice?

they tried that with Edge 1.0

[โ€“] detren@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah and the only good thing about it back then was the PDF viewer tbh