
“We are excited about the opportunity to be an even-more-active part of this community and bring the best of Microsoft forward to continue to make the web better for everyone.”Ĭhromium is itself a fork of WebKit, the rendering engine used by Apple in Safari. “If you’re part of the open-source community developing browsers, we invite you to collaborate with us as we build the future of Microsoft Edge and contribute to the Chromium project,” says Belfiore. Microsoft now wants to collaborate with Apple, Google, and everyone else who also commits changes to Chromium. The new version of Microsoft’s new Edge browser will be based on Chromium and-most interestingly for Mac users-it will run on the Mac.

The big story from Microsoft land is that the company is throwing in the towel on doing its own web rendering engine and embracing the Chromium open-source project, which is what powers Google Chrome.
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Microsoft bringing Edge to Mac (via Chromium)
