Browsers
Honestly I just see all this, even despite the author claiming taking time to &quot;mull it over&quot;, as a knee-jerk reaction. There is little evidence that MS changing to Blink&#x2F;V8 will have any tangible impact on the web.<p>Microsoft has hardly offered much as far as competition and diversity goes since IE6, basically the only web &quot;innovations&quot; they&#x27;re responsible for is a bunch of IE-specific APIs that didn&#x27;t work in any other browser.<p>The garbage rhetoric that Mozilla and their supporters have been spreading is pure FUD:<p>&gt; By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.<p>MS&#x27; new default browser being based on Chromium does not give any additional control of online life to Google. They&#x27;re open-source projects that, while Google manages, does not have absolute control over the consumption of. If Google did ever try to muscle control on Chromium like they&#x27;ve been doing with Android, Microsoft could simply fork it without the hostile Google changes.<p>If anything I see this whole thing being beneficial for the web in the long run - now instead of MS engineers pissing their time and effort down the drain on a dead browser and needlessly fragmenting the market with engine differences, even if people don&#x27;t use the default Windows browser Microsoft&#x27;s engineers can contribute to and benefit the web by contributing their improvements upstream to the Chromium&#x2F;Blink&#x2F;V8 projects.