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Yuck! Too many options! 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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When visiting a friend last weekend, I mentioned as a side remark that lots of people never gave a thought to the name 'Edge' - similar to the old days when lots of people using the Lynx browser never associated it with anything but a big, wild cat. My friend knows a lot of math, including a fair amount of graph theory. Yet, he gave me a puzzled look: What do you mean? Is that name supposed to mean anything special?
Well ... Yes. Like Lynx. And the little Ford Ka (that's some years ago, isn't it?). And the arrow below the Amazon text in the logo. One common brand of Californian raisins imported to Norway had the brand name 'Sun Maid' (with a picture of a young woman carrying a basket of grapes) - my mother never ever would accept the idea that 'Sun Maid' was a play of 'Sun made', ripened in the sun. Marketing folks come up with lots of bright ideas in this class, and 99% of the audience ignores/overlooks it. I am sure that they are prepared for that  .
I guess that a fair share of the Lounge audience has had their share of graph theory. So let me ask: Have you ever been considering the name 'Edge' as related to hypertext graphs? Or are you considering it to be just a random name picked out of the blue?
(If you care to indicated whether you feel familiar with graph theory, that would be an interesting additional piece of information!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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In my part of the world*, a dissected plateau, there are many clifftop lookouts and walking trails.
There is a lot of signage encouraging people to keep away from the edge, which I consider excellent advice.
* The coincidence between my postcode and an ancient IBM RJE device/protocol I find amusing.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Do you have bobcats there as well?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Only the skid-steer loader[^] variety.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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On the Edge of working reliably?
Definition of a burocrate; Delegate, Take Credit, shift blame.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com
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Reminds me of a service desk related software made by my earlier company in India. The product (launched in the late 90's) was aptly named as:
ServiceEdge
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As in Edge computing, vertices, etc. Perhaps, it's an interesting thought 
So it's not referring to the rounded corner design? Micro soft edge? :P
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It reminds me of a guitarist.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Edge refers to the Edge of the network where all the fun stuff happens. <- like that sentence.
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So, these days I have a few medical issues I'm working on... I try to login to my doctor's portal, and it's unable to handle Opera. Oh really? 40 years after all this got started, and you won't handle opera? Get it to come up in Edge - finally - and the f'ing icon is using my login information. I think not.
Off to vpn for me.
You're not paranoid if they really are listening and harvesting your data. I'm sure FISA will keep me safe.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: the f'ing icon is using my login information.
What do you mean?
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when I go to edge, the login photo for me is in the upper left.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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OK I give up, what is a login photo?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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when I pull up Edge on my base iron laptop, in the upper left of the browser, it seems to know who I am - my base Office 365 image is up there smiling at me. This appears to be the coordinated effort at MS trying to get me to login all the time. Not going to happen.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Sounds like the app might allow single sign-on (SSO).
I take it your log on to your computer login logs you on to your Microsoft account?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 7hrs 10mins ago.
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No sir, all of local accounts on machines are local, I refuse to use the MS based login. But I do think it has to do with Office 365 and Edge "cooperating."
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A number of times, I've seen a message that "Edge is using my webcam", though Edge is not running.
That's why my daughter's have pasted an opaque sticker on their laptop webcams. No spying.
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charlieg wrote: when I pull up Edge on my base iron laptop, in the upper left of the browser, it seems to know who I am - my base Office 365 image is up there smiling at me.
Click on that image, Other Profiles, Browse as Guest.
Or pick another profile instead of Guest.
Or use InPrivate mode (Ctrl-Shift-N).
These profiles are only (primarily) used to determine what credentials the browser should offer to submit, should you be browsing the same sites as different users.
Chrome does the same thing.
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charlieg wrote: I'm sure FISA will keep me safe.
Absolutely, they have only your interest and safety in mind.
Definition of a burocrate; Delegate, Take Credit, shift blame.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com
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If history has taught us anything, we can always trust an authoritarian government. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Assuming it's not just a cache issue from a previous visit...
One of the things Microsoft always did with IE and now Edge was integrate it with Active Directory. You ever notice on some internal sites at work you don't have to login when using Edge but you do in other browsers? That's on purpose. That's usually through AD though, so just guessing even if it's a un-authenticated or non-domain login that peeps can still query enough data to get some account info in Edge regardless.
It's supposed to be a "feature", but it's always been there in some form.
Mo' Info
IMO Firefox and Brave are the only browsers that even remotely pretend to care about your privacy. I say this as a dude who uses Chrome.
Jeremy Falcon
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^ This.
Chrome has the same sort of profile management built into it. You can "log into the browser" before logging into any site you visit, and thus use different profiles for different purposes.
It's actually useful. There's no conspiracy, unless one prefers to always browse in Incognito mode and be asked to enter passwords non-stop.
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