14 DAY TRIAL // We’ve seen lots of blunders on stage, and still happen occasionally, but this must be the best of all. A Microsoft engineer downloaded, installed, and started using Google Chrome during a live presentation after Microsoft Edge, the default Windows 10 browser, stopped responding in the middle of a demo.
In just a few words, Microsoft Edge froze while the engineer was working with virtual machines in the browser, and judging from how fast he proceeded to downloading Google Chrome, this wasn’t the first time it happened. Because, you know, sometimes reloading the page or restarting the browser does help, but you can’t risk hitting the same error twice, right?
“I love it when demos break,” he said. “So while we’re talking here, I’m gonna go install Chrome,” he continued before he started laughing, with many people in the audience cheering.
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“And we’re going to not make Google better,” he added when unchecking the box to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google, as if this made things less worse. “We’re going to do this again, I’m sorry about this. The age of these machines are [sic] wacked down a little bit, there are some things that just don’t work.”
Internet Explorer has long been considered “the best browser to download Google Chrome” and following this demo, Microsoft Edge seems to be a worthy successor that appears to be doing the same thing even faster. Because truth be told, it took less than a minute for the Microsoft engineer to download and install Google’s browser, with everything working flawlessly after that.
You can watch the entire blunder in the video embedded below (starting at 37m25s) and you can also go download Google Chrome right from Softpedia using this link.
And for what it’s worth, Google Chrome is currently the world’s number one desktop browser with a share of no less than 59.48 percent, while Microsoft Edge is far behind with 5.65 percent share.
