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If IE was an issue for users, pretty sure that means they'll continue to use Firefox or Chrome, not Spartan. If Microsoft wants to "win the browser war", in my

by 300bps 12y ago

If IE was an issue for users, pretty sure that means they'll continue to use Firefox or Chrome, not Spartan. If Microsoft wants to "win the browser war", in my opinion the best thing they could do would be to create their own WebKit (or even Chromium) distribution and have it installed in Windows by default.

Someone1234 12y ago
That may work, but it would be bad for the market overall. The more browser engines we have the better, least of all we wind up in another IE6-like situation where one browser/engine rules the world and dictates web-features. PS - Yes, I know Google broke away from Apple's WebKit branch. But a lot of browsers are still very WebKit-like.
- cwyers 12y ago
  And that's also a pretty big reason why Microsoft may not want to be on WebKit. Google forked WebKit because it and Apple couldn't agree on what direction to take things. Why would Microsoft be able to work with either of Apple or Google than they could work together on WebKit? So it's very likely that it wouldn't be a WebKit-based browser, but a browser based on Microsoft's WebKit fork or Microsoft's Blink fork.
wantab 12y ago
You remember the last time they installed their own browser by default, don't you?