Take this with a gain of salt, I've heard that Microsoft is eyeing Edge for the chopping block, and they're prototyping yet-another-chromium-based-browser with

Take this with a gain of salt, I've heard that Microsoft is eyeing Edge for the chopping block, and they're prototyping yet-another-chromium-based-browser with a look and feel of Edge. It's obviously a massive development effort to build a browser and this would ease porting edge to different platforms. I assume a PM decided to stop reinventing the wheel and cut costs to get more visibility for promotion.