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Mozilla's CEO is not enthusiastic about Microsoft's switch to Chromium:
When Microsoft announced that its Edge browser would be revamped using Chromium, the internet's response was generally quite positive. Edge is far from the worst browser on the planet, but it's certainly not what we'd call a fan favorite. As such, even the slightest indication that it could be changed significantly would have been welcome news for many.
However, it would seem that "many" doesn't include one individual in particular: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard. In a blog post published today, titled "Goodbye, EdgeHTML," Beard expressed his frustrations with Microsoft's decision.
"By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google," Beard writes in the post. "This may sound melodramatic, but it's not. The "browser engines" — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are "inside baseball" pieces of software that actually determine a great deal of what each of us can do online."
Microsoft's switch to Chromium could be a big boon for Google's own implementation.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @03:26PM (3 children)
You say that like...
But seriously: just the other day MS surpassed Apple as the world's most valueable company.
The last time I personally visited their homepage it was actually difficult to find their links to windows and office.
MS is now far far more like IBM and Oracle: their product offering are no more than ways to facilitate their consulting services.
I expect google and amazons clouds are more popular among those who roll their own solutions, whereas I expect Microsofts Cloud is more popular among those that retain Microsoft's consultants to roll them on their behalf
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Nerdfest on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:38PM (2 children)
Their business these days seems to be bribing government and purchasing agents to throw money at Azure to give them a chance at continuing the lock-in. Azure has poor performance and reliability compared to their competition. Without lock-in or continuing bribes, they're done.
The backing off on the browser front is unusual though, as Edge might have helped them, but I guess it's just too broken. They've gone from "Explorer", to "Edge", and I'm guessing the finalized name of this new browser will be "Just the Tip".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:59PM (1 child)
A couple months ago I listed many of Oracle's locations at Soggy Jobs.
A great many of its shops are located in national capitals.
Surely We Are Doomed.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday December 09 2018, @10:18PM
Yeah, thinking about it, you're very right about the similarities to IBM as well. Luckily, as with both of the other companies, their relevance continues to drop.