I think it was a sensible decision to drop their own engine as nobody liked it anyway. Might as well go with a proven one and use your resources on stuff your customers want you to focus on. Since Nadella took over, Microsoft has been very well managed imo and they made a lot of right moves, like their move into cloud computing, embracing open source, integrating linux subsystem on windows, etc…

Their choice to ditch their IE/edge engine is a symptom of these better managerial choices.

Punctuation is a beautiful thing.

Not really. Checked it a couple of times, but I’m sticking with Lemmy. Don’t miss it, don’t need it.

According to my sloppy google maps guesstimate, this appears to be true. Florida-West Africa seems slightly further than Maine-Northwest Africa