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Microsoft may experience firsthand what can happen when you build your business on competitors platform. I'm exaggerating of course but essentially it may happe
by Yizahi 7y ago
Microsoft may experience firsthand what can happen when you build your business on competitors platform. I'm exaggerating of course but essentially it may happen. The good news is that MS is probably the only company which can actually maintain its own browser in a case if Google goes completely hostile on them. Then this mythical thing called Chromium may materialize as an independent entity from Google, making different decisions and implementing different core features (which is not true today).
- freeone3000 7y agoThey did maintain their own browser. It was called Edge.
- Yizahi 7y agoThat was my point - they have real experience creating and maintaining browsers, unlike most other corporations.
- dehrmann 7y agoChrome was originally based on Webkit, and that's a fork of KHTML, so Google at least knows all about building on a competitor's platform.
- Yizahi 7y agoYes, but now Google took over and did so very thoroughly. Chrome=Google now.