Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by sime2009 on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:06AM
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True. People forgot that Microsoft had been developing its own browser for years before they moved to Chromium. That team and expertise didn't just disappear. They've been doing significant work in that code base. See https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1329200077517295618 from a year ago. Having that technical power does give them quite a lot of control over the code base which can help balance the political power here.
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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by madc on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:09AM
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No web developer old enough will ever forget, I promise you that.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by sime2009 on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:13AM
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I have not forgotten, but Gates and Ballmer are gone and the market situation for MS is totally different. People don't have to take their Evil Empire monopolist crap of the past.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by jacquesm on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:29AM
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That doesn't stop them from trying though, and there are plenty of examples from recent times that prove that the difference between the old MS and the new MS are much smaller than their PR department would like you to believe.
The biggest difference is that the new MS is no longer selling you software but access to software.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by mschuster91 on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:23PM
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> People don't have to take their Evil Empire monopolist crap of the past.
Advertising in the Start Menu enters the room
Often enough, it feels as if there are two brains inside Microsoft - shiny new MS with Azure, WSL, VSCode on the one side, and old, schoolyard bully MS with advertising, telemetry, forcing cloud everywhere on the other side.