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by roca 2233 days ago
> The fact that Chromium is Electron’s backend is why MS picked Chromium to base Edge off.

What evidence do you have for this?

AFAIK the main reason why Microsoft picked Chromium is that Web sites are pretty much guaranteed to work well in Chromium without Microsoft having to do any work.
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leeoniya 2233 days ago
> What evidence do you have for this?

they stated that their experience with CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) was instrumental in their decision.

VSCode (built on electron) was probably the main PoC for them.

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roca 2233 days ago
OK. I doubt the absence of CEF would have changed their decision though.
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alibert 2233 days ago
Not strictly evidence but look like MS is working to have a shared base install of Electron on Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...

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roca 2233 days ago
FWIW that is apparently for "rendering Web content" inside a Windows application, and that's what the examples do; not clear to me that it's exposing Electron.
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