As a regular Windows user, I agree with TFA: forcing the install with a reboot, subverting user preferences, and then plastering the desktop environment with Edge paraphernalia both sucks and blows.

As a Web Dev, I have to say that mercilessly terminating Trident-Edge and salting the earth is the right thing to do. I wouldn't trust some on who uses and (*gasp*) likes Trident-Edge to make the correct choice when asked nicely if they would like to replace it with Chromium-Edge.

User choice is a good thing, but Trident-Edge was a painful barrier to shipping a universally-stable and modern web app, and I spit on its grave.

Infoworld has done better articles on the topic. A little dated (2010... Applets? Flash?), but still fun:

Nothing screams "get off my lawn" like a language controlled by Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software vendor. The chances that Java can attract the mohawks-and-tattoos set today seem slimmer than ever.

When you fopen() a file in binary ("rb", etc.) mode, you do have to take that into account. However, when you open in text mode ("r", "w", etc.) the stdlib does linefeed conversion for you.

Here's an excruciatingly detailed explaination.

Note that fseek() with SEEK_CUR will almost always fail in text mode, since the number of bytes read may vary from the current offset in the file due to the conversion. Recording the current offset with ftell() followed by an fseek() with SEEK_SET will clear that right up.

Crazy but true. This has corrupted my data more than once. Here's an excruciatingly detailed explaination.