MS Edge browser to begin using the Chromium rendering engine Options

[Christian J]

Official confirmation: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience...-collaboration/

Comment from Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/

From a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective ceding control of fundamental online infrastructure to a single company is terrible.

[Christian J]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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.

[Christian J]

Why wouldn't they be allowed? Because of monopoly rules?

Wasn't some planned big acquisition cancelled lately because of that?

Now I also remembered this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/19/17586258...arch-fine-apple --seems MS is not the only one under fire after all.

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.

Perhaps GDPR or similar forbids it?

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.

I suppose Google could use at least FB's adress book feature, OTOH I'm sure Google keeps track of who's mailing who on GMail in a similar way (MS in turn bought LinkedIn).