MS Edge browser to begin using the Chromium rendering engine |
MS Edge browser to begin using the Chromium rendering engine |
Christian J |
Dec 8 2018, 11:43 AM
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Official confirmation: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience...-collaboration/
Comment from Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/ QUOTE From a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective ceding control of fundamental online infrastructure to a single company is terrible. |
Christian J |
Dec 11 2018, 04:18 AM
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Didn't MS use that as a legal excuse somehow? Then people found out that you could run multiple IE versions on the same Windows installation, and that MS was lying, IIRC. Here it is (not really worth reading): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States..._Microsoft_Corp. The Browser Choice feature seems related to this case (which was primarily about Windows Media Player): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Unio..._investigations Isn't, or at least wasn't, Safari an integrated part of a Mac? It is (or was) also used as file manager, I think. No idea. All those judgements seem very arbitrary. There is a Windows version of Safari, but there was also a Mac version of IE, but that was held against MS. |
pandy |
Dec 11 2018, 06:20 AM
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At the same time I've never heard any criticism about MS offering a Mac version of Office. Yeah, judgements seem passed at random.
And when it comes to evilness, what Google is doing in now is far more evil than anything MS ever did. Google soon owns every aspect of people's lives. The day they purchase Facebook we're done. MS just wanted our desktops. Facebook is in trouble, I hear. I've read Americans are leaving FB in large numbers. Swedes probably still don't get it, but Swedes don't matter anyway. If this continues it could mean Zuckerberg et al will be inclined to sell and guess who will be ready to buy. |
Christian J |
Dec 11 2018, 07:16 AM
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And when it comes to evilness, what Google is doing in now is far more evil than anything MS ever did. Google soon owns every aspect of people's lives. It has also made itself indispensable with all its free services, making it harder for governments to regulate them (unlike FB which is not much more than a vanity blog and a contact book). Now it seems Chromium is becoming an indispensable item too. Wonder what it means for the spying on user in practice, though? MS may not want to share Edge/Chromium's user data with Google. QUOTE The day they purchase Facebook we're done. Wonder if they would be allowed to do it openly like that? But I guess Google could always discreetly buy data from FB (and vice versa). |
pandy |
Dec 11 2018, 12:11 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,733 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Why wouldn't they be allowed? Because of monopoly rules? But FB is an unique concept, different from what Google owns already. It's not as if they were on a shopping spree buying every search engine out there.
Yeah, FB is a big address book. And a diary. And almost everyone is there. That's just it. Personal information is food for today's monsters. |
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