Microsoft has announced recently that their Edge browser will abandon its own kernel and switch to use Google Chromium. This by no means indicates that Microsoft admitted it lost the war against Google on browser.
For Microsoft, making such a decision is certainly not easy, but it is absolutely a wise decision. After all, the market share of both parties are not at the same competing level anymore.
According to NetMarketShare's statistics, Chrome's market share in desktop world has reached 67.29%, an increase of 11% over the previous month, and an increase of 5.88% compared to a year ago.
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From the chart, there is no other browser has over 10% market share. Even Firefox has only 9.92% market share. After Edge chooses to use Chromium, the Chromium family will become bigger and there would be less room for other browsers to survive.
To the developer community, it might be a good news since they need to scratch their head to write code to be compatible with another browser. But it might not be a good news for the browser technology to evolve since it may hinder the innovation for new comers
Chrome is becoming the new IE?
