Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by ygra on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:42AM
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First of all, the team who open-sourced .NET is a different one from that that is building IE. DevDiv has been very open-source-friendly for a few years by now.
Then there is the fact that .NET is far less tied to the platform than IE is. .NET is nothing more than a VM, runtime and GC. That's fairly easy to get cross-platform, compared to a GUI application that makes use of platform libraries for hw-accelerated drawing and text rendering.
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by scrollaway on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:25AM
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What's foolish is to think that such a thing wouldn't have been announced outside of the comments section of some website.
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by jsprogrammer on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:35AM
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Sorry, I don't have time to go through Microsoft's entire PR archive to verify. Why would anyone ask Microsoft (or an employee) a question then?
MS has opened up their flagship development platform (.NET) and even has it building on Linux. MS will also rent you Linux virtual machines.
The post also talks about interoperability and running across many kinds of devices, including "try out RemoteIE which will stream our latest browser from the Azure cloud to Windows, iOS or Android devices."