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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by ijidak on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:02PM (#22060277)
> If push came to shove, forking chromium wouldn't be an idle threat from MS

Can almost guarantee this will happen in 2-5 years.

Given Microsoft's history, I don't see Microsoft and Google playing nice for too long.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by oaiey on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:53AM (#22062015)
I also think this will happen. They have very different interests.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by doctor_eval on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:38AM (#22062685)
Google forked WebKit and it worked out pretty well for them.
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