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Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by sabujp on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:04AM (#15968102)
having to use a competitor's rendering engine is quite ridiculous
Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by pjmlp on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:24AM (#15968197)
Google doesn't have any issue having to deal with it for iOS.
Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by hpaavola on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:30AM (#15968222)
I'm sure they have many issues with it, but they just don't have any options. Ditching Windows 10 S is an option since it has such a small market share.
Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by pjmlp on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:22AM (#15969241)
I bet outside US it will have much more market share than Chromebooks.
Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by smilekzs on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:33AM (#15968241)
M$ Edge on Android uses WebKit.
Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by Ari_Ugwu on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:07AM (#15968894)
I feel like the 'M$' pejorative is a bit out dated and not really representative of Microsoft as a company anymore.

Apple, and Google practices as of late do seem sufficiently profit oriented to the point of poor consumer experience. Throw Facebook and Twitter in the mix for good measure. At the very least MS is no longer the only bully in the room....if they are still a bully at all.

I'm not sure I've seen quite as drastic a shift in fundamental thinking from a company as I've seen from Microsoft in recent years (under Nadella).

tl;dr - Any large and diversified (tech) company has so many powerful stakeholders within the company that decisions bubble up which are in the best interest of those stakeholders and their departments, not necessarily the consumer.

Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by vetinari on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:29AM (#15968984)
It was a cost-saving measure, the Edge engine doesn't run on anything that isn't Windows.

Firefox for Android uses it's own engine.

Re:Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Wind... by hooluupog on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:44AM (#15968293)
But it's not compulsory on android.