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Edge is Chromium.

• pc86 4y ago
  And Chromium isn't Chrome. What's your point?
  • revolvingocelot 4y ago
    But Chrome, Chromium, and Edge are all Blink. IMO the GGP's fear of "Chrome dominance" is better expressed as "Blink dominance". I don't think anyone particularly liked Trident or EdgeHTML but at least they represented a more diverse rendering-engine-world.
    • 908B64B197 4y ago
      The last releases of EdgeHTML were quite good (and MUCH better than chrome for battery life).
• ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  fight fire with fire
• JeremyNT 4y ago
  Indeed, it's ridiculous to think that Edge does anything to keep Google in check. It's a sign of how thoroughly MS was defeated on this front that they now reskin the browser developed by their competition. Edge may be good for Microsoft, because it allows them to siphon off even more user data and (apparently) inject more ads, but it surely doesn't do anything to help the browser ecosystem.
  • creata 4y ago
    > it surely doesn't do anything to help the browser ecosystem. I'm sure it doesn't do anywhere near as much as it would if Edge had its own browser engine or JavaScript engine, but surely it does something to have a competitor who has the resources to maintain a fork if they need to?
  • lenkite 4y ago
    There weren't defeated - the original Edge browser was popular on windows. The CEO just decided it was too much work. He did the same for Windows Phone. Maybe he will say Windows is also too much work in the future. MS has become just another cloud company nowadays. Not much to differentiate them.