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nine_k • yesterday at 1:42 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

For general-purpose use this may be true. For specialized Web-based tools, like access to medical or legal systems, not as much: the users are conditioned to work with a specific browser (many remember MSIE-only apps), and are used to the idea that their workstation has all kinds of Internet access limitations, along with a corporate policy that expressly forbids arbitrary browsing.

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j45 • yesterday at 3:38 PM

The browser familiarity might have been more true 15-30 years ago.

The installation of any software and management of it is norhing tnew in the corporate world.

Chrome may be chrome. Chrome is not the default on windows computers in corporations. Edge usually is.

After it's installed, professionals much more now know today how to remember which icon to select and run.

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