Wait, did Microsoft win the browser wars?<p>MS: Okay, gooogle, you win, we aren't good at making browsers like you are. Can you take on all the responsibility of making this browser work while we focus solely on what our customers want?<p>So they can basically blame Google for everything while spending all their time building on top of chrome.
The original browser wars were predicated on the internet being the new center of profit, and the company that controlled it via the browser being the main company of the next century. Nobody thinks that you need to control a browser to make profit anymore, Google uses it's browser more as a bulwark against real profit threatening things like extra security and privacy in other browsers.<p>For these reasons Microsoft did not win the browser war, because there is no war if there isn't anything financially important to fight over.<p>on edit: changed a was to were.
Microsoft is doing, what they do best.
Find things most users using or want to use, that's what they have done with WSL.Then do that with MS branding.
Now trying to attract Chrome's userbase.<p>PS: That's what most of these companies do.