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What I find fascinating with MS's decision to use Chrome was their willingness to take the hit and learn a new code base from scratch (and not even their own mo
by doe88 7y ago
What I find fascinating with MS's decision to use Chrome was their willingness to take the hit and learn a new code base from scratch (and not even their own moreover). Usually inertia wins at big companies but not in this case. Regardless of the final outcome I really am impressed by the engineering effort needed behind this decision.
- BuckRogers 7y agoRegardless of meme-ish behavior over MS being incompetent on software, they're actually aces at it. If not the best entity in the world, they definitely know software. If anyone can pivot, manage a team to learn a codebase as large as Chromium at the drop of a hat, it's Microsoft. I only invest in index funds, but I'd place my bets on Microsoft over FANG, zero hesitation.
- green-eclipse 7y ago"Best entity in the world." Would love to see some data or citations behind these bold claims.
- basch 7y agoi have to believe they want to build a blink dll into the os, so all apps that need blink/webkit can call the os implementation vs bundling a copy of chromium. it would make sense to build node into the os as well.