It is now, but it initially did use Trident. I was on the IE team when Edge launched.
replyDoes "Microsoft now bundles Google's browser engine" really scream "won the browser wars" to you?
replyDo you not think the settlement requiring APIs be opened up helped enable Chrome at all?
No, because the post-settlement era was actually the era of consolidated IE dominance. Chrome only started because MSFT, in their (unbroken by the FTC) dominance had sat around doing nothing for the web. Chrome also avoided using platform APIs because they wanted to be cross-platform.
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