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0 pointsnashashmi7y ago0 comments

10 years ago it was forseeable that MS would lose the browser wars.

BTW, this is not the first time MS has considered Chromium. Back before the fork of Edge, they considered using Webkit.

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By 2008 it was fairly obvious that MS wasn't serious contender in the browser market anymore. This was two years after IE7 release which itself was pretty lackluster, and IE8 was still nowhere to be seen. Firefox popularity was pretty much at its peak, and Chrome was just released immediately starting to eat up the world.

jansan7y ago

Maybe Webkit would have fewer bugs by now if Microsoft had chosen it for Edge a few years ago.

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