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Re:The Browser Monopoly by bryanlarsen on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:12PM (#20761175)
I too believe this was a very short-sighted move on Microsoft's part. There might have been some very good short-term reasons for building off of Chromium rather than Firefox or servo, but long-term entrenching the Google monopoly is going to cost them big time.
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Re:The Browser Monopoly by basch on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:48PM (#20762197)
It's almost gotta be a new guard of developers that though it was easier to force blink on the windows team, than abandon what they they grew up using.

Microsoft could have written any browser engine it wanted and then placed iOS/Safari like rules on other browsers, such as... "if you want us to allow your app to run in Battery Friendly mode, you must ONLY use our OS provided web engine."

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Re:The Browser Monopoly by no_wizard on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:47PM (#20764472)
I think that behavior could get construed into a lawsuit though. It’s a little in bad faith with their anti trust history
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