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To be clear, this isn't a product called "Presenter", this is a person who works for Microsoft who switched to Chrome during a presentation. Nothing to see here.

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Nothing to see? Rather embarrassing and does not speak well for Edge?

Or reflects maturity... it's a bit embarrassing that Edge doesn't work, but it would be 100x as embarrassing if they let a problem with Edge interfere with other parts of the business just because they want to use 100% Microsoft stuff. It's a good change from the Microsoft we knew in the 1990s and 2000s, which would have made their web apps with DHTML, ActiveX, or Silverlight. Sure, DHTML is now just "the way things are done" (and not even called DHTML any more) but at the time it was IE's quirky way of making interactive web pages.

It's a little embarrassing though. Had they at least chosen Firefox which isn't a major competitor of theirs across multiple markets, it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

Why didn't he use firefox?

Showing that your product works flawlessly on the market-leading browser is not "bad" in my opinion.

If he'd tried it in Firefox next I think everyone would have been distracted by the question in their heads of "does it not work on Chrome?".

> I think everyone would have been distracted by the question in their heads of "does it not work on Chrome?".

Or maybe be they would had thought “Wow. Finally someone who does proper cross-browser testing and not just defaulting to Chrome. How refreshing. Maybe there’s hope for the web after all?”

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