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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by criley2 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:32PM (#21467608)
>You don’t call having to use its biggest rivals browser engine and Bing missing out on the web?

They run windows at Google HQ and AWS but you don't see anyone saying Google and Amazon "missed out"

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:28PM (#21468258)
They run Windows because their customers demand it for their VMs. You really think Microsoft spent 24 years fighting the browser wars and liked just giving up and giving control over to Google?
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