Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has put up a post about explaining what they wanted to accomplish when they started working on Project Spartan, the new web browser that will ship with Windows 10. They say some things you wouldn't expect to hear from Microsoft: "We needed a plan to make it easy for Web developers to build compatible sites regardless of which browser they develop first for. We needed a plan which ensured that our customers have a good experience regardless of whether they browse the head or tail of the Web. We needed a plan which gave enterprise customers a highly backward compatible browser regardless of how quickly we pushed forward with modern HTML5 features." They also explain how they decided against using WebKit so they wouldn't contribute to "a monoculture on the Web."

Comments

Re:Hard to believe

[Zero__Kelvin]

"MS mono-culture was caused by the incompetence and greed of those who were in a position to offer up alternatives."

Holy ... frigging ... shit. That has to be the stupidest thing I've read all year. You would literally have to ignore every bit of evidence throughout history to be able to type that in any other capacity than that of Microsux shill.

Re:All those plans in two words

[Zero__Kelvin]

You are basically correct, excepting that they absolutely knew what they were doing. They knew playing well with others and building a quality product was an option. Gates simply knew that he never has succeeded, and never will succeed in accomplishing anything without exhibiting immoral and criminal/borderline criminal behaviour.