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***Porting Chromium to ARM64**: We’ve done significant work in collaboration with Google engineers to enable Chromium-based browsers to compile and run natively on Windows on ARM devices. Because of our engineering investment, Chromium-based browsers will soon be able to ship native implementations for ARM-based Windows PCs, which significantly improves their performance and battery life. This is a great example of us making investments in Chromium to move-forward the web experience across a range of browsers on these new types of PCs.
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***Enabling Web RTC to work for Windows UWP apps**: For more than a year, we have been working on WebRTC for Universal Windows Platform (UWP). This offers developers a WebRTC solution for all our Windows 10 platforms, including desktop, Xbox, Hololens/VR and IoT. Last week, we announced our agreement with Google to push the UWP fork of WebRTC Lib back to the WebRTC.org repo.
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***Enabling Web RTC to work for Windows UWP apps**: For more than a year, we have been working on WebRTC for Universal Windows Platform (UWP). This offers developers a WebRTC solution for all our Windows 10 platforms, including desktop, Xbox, HoloLens/VR and IoT. Last week, we announced our agreement with Google to push the UWP fork of WebRTC Lib back to the WebRTC.org repo.
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***Improving Angle**: In the past, we have made improvements to ANGLE’s D3D11 backend and improve its performance. More recently, we collaborated with Intel and the ANGLE team on additional improvements to make ANGLE the official backend for WebGL in Microsoft Edge.
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1.*We will adopt Chromium as the web platform for Microsoft Edge desktop*. Our desire here is to align Microsoft Edge’s web platform both (a) with web standards and (b) with other Chromium-based browsers, for improved compatibility and a simpler test-matrix for developers.
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2.*We will evolve the Microsoft Edge app architecture, enabling distribution to all supported versions of Windows including Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as Windows 10. We will also bring Microsoft Edge to other desktop platforms, such as macOS*. Improving the web experience for end users (better compatibility) and developers (less fragmentation) requires a consistent web-platform as widely available as possible. To accomplish this, we will use Chromium’s cross-platform app-technology along with a change in our distribution model, so that the Edge experience and web-platform become available across all supported operating systems.
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2.*We will evolve the Microsoft Edge app architecture, enabling distribution to all supported versions of Windows including Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as Windows 10. We will also bring Microsoft Edge to other desktop platforms, such as macOS*. Improving the web experience for end users (better compatibility) and developers (less fragmentation) requires a consistent web-platform as widely available as possible. To accomplish this, we will use Chromium’s cross-platform app-technology along with a change in our distribution model, so that the Microsoft Edge experience and web-platform become available across all supported operating systems.
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3.*We will offer our Windows platform expertise to improve the experience of all Chromium-based browsers on Windows*. Our philosophy of greater participation in Chromium open source will embrace contribution of beneficial new tech, consistent with some of the work we described above. We recognize that making the web better on Windows is good for our customers, partners and our business – and we intend to actively contribute to that end. We welcome the opportunity to partner with the Chromium community in the areas of battery life, touch, accessibility, security, and other areas of mutual interest.
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**Security* - It is, of course, of paramount importance to all browser vendors that web users are kept as safe and secure as possible. In support of this shared goal, we are looking forward to partnering closely with the Chromium Security team and contributing our experience with building secure software in general, and our expertise with the Windows platform, in particular.
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## What Happens Next
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This is a big step for Microsoft, for the Microsoft Edge team, and we recognize it will be a big step for the Chromium project as well. We are enthusiastic about the benefit we believe this will bring to the larger web community. We are eager to begin engaging with our counterparts at Google and the other contributors to the Chromium project, and in the Chromium project generally, on how we can move forward together on a common web platform. At the same time, we recognize the value of competition and intend to bring-to-life our best vision for an Edge browser that builds on Chromium open source via differentiated user experience features and connected services.
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This is a big step for Microsoft, for the Microsoft Edge team, and we recognize it will be a big step for the Chromium project as well. We are enthusiastic about the benefit we believe this will bring to the larger web community. We are eager to begin engaging with our counterparts at Google and the other contributors to the Chromium project, and in the Chromium project generally, on how we can move forward together on a common web platform. At the same time, we recognize the value of competition and intend to bring-to-life our best vision for a Microsoft Edge browser that builds on Chromium open source via differentiated user experience features and connected services.
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We already have positive working relationships with many Chromium contributors based on our work in the standards bodies and in prior shared engineering efforts. We look forward to building on those relationships and learning-as-we-go how we can best contribute to this implementation of the open web.
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To provide a more specific sense of what actions we’ll take with and following this memo, here’s the short-list:
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1. We will start by contacting the engineering owners of various parts of the Chromium project to engage on how we can begin contributing in the areas listed above. This includes Google as well as other companies.
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2. We will inform other key partners about this evolution in our Microsoft Edge strategy: e.g., WHATWG, the W3C… as well as our OEM partners, high-interaction development partners and others.
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3. We’ll make a public announcement via blog post so that the external community of people interested will have a transparent view of our strategy change.
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4. We’ll post this document to Github so any interested developer or web-community member can read about our plans directly.
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4. We’ll post this document to GitHub so any interested developer or web-community member can read about our plans directly.
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We invite your comments, advice, and feedback as we begin to engage with you on the Chromium project!
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