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>Yeah, this is just depressing and honestly a little baffling. Seems contrary to Microsoft's interests - why let Google control this aspect of the Web? Chromiu

• pcwalton 8y ago
  An overwhelming majority of the committers to Chromium, as well as the leadership, are in the Google reporting structure.
  • ryacko 8y ago
    Chromium is just a fork of WebKit, a fork of KHTML. Unless Microsoft is really planning on downsizing their web browser division, they’ll fork it instead of maintaining a rebranded patch set.
    • Jyaif 8y ago
      Unless MS wants to work on the browser secretly for years (the reason for the Webkit fork) or Google refuses many contributions from MS (the reason for the Blink fork), there's no need for a fork.
      • ryacko 8y ago
        There’s other reasons beyond rendering engines and JS JIT compilers to fork.
• snaky 8y ago
  Just try to build it not using Google's internal builds of various tools and libraries.
• JohnBooty 8y ago
  Google's employees make up the bulk of Chromium's contributors and leadership. Microsoft is of course free to diverge from it as much as they like but, like any other Chromium-based browser, they are either going to be joined at the hip to Google's decisions, or they'll be downstream consumers. The bottom line is that while MS will be contributors to Chromium they won't be in the driver's seat.