Re:Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
by petilon on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:27AM
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If Microsoft can get people to stop downloading Chrome on Windows then the new Edge may soon have higher market share than Chrome. At that point Microsoft can wrest control of Chromium from Google just like Google wrested control of Webkit from Apple, by forking it.
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Re:Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
by basch on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:21AM
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People are saying "how will this happen" BUT what this is really about is battery life. Microsoft is admitting it cant ship a stripped down copy of windows without Blink/V8 embedded as a library. Too many things (node, electron, browsers, etc) require Blink/V8, and if Microsoft wants to ship a Skinny Windows that is Battery Friendly, they need ONE copy of Blink.
So eventually, what will happen is Microsoft moves towards the Apple route. "Windows Lite comes with OUR Blink/V8 and you can write a browser shell (also called a Chrome :) ) around it.
Embrace > extend.
Re:Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
by h1d on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:38AM
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How do you even do that without getting sued?
Re:Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
by Majestic121 on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:40AM
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Make Edge good enough so that people don't bother downloading Chrome/Firefox