Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Nov 2008 09:45 UTC, submitted by mlauzon
Most of the popular browsers these days are based on one of the two open source rendering engines - khtml/WebKit and Gecko. The most popular browser, however, is based on proprietary technology: Internet Explorer. Even though IE made some progress during the past few years, it's no secret that it took Microsoft far too long to counter the success of Mozilla's Firefox. Currently, Microsoft is working (and thus, spending money) on Internet Explorer 8, and this prompted an audience member during a keynote by Steve Ballmer to ask an interesting question: is it worth spending money on IE, with so many open source engines readily available? Ballmer's reply may surprise you.
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2005-08-11
"I do not think should thing could occur actually.... "
It's the best thing that could happen to the web, Safari, Konqueror and IE using the same rendering engine. MS couldn't mess with it too much, because the don't own the code, and any changes they make would need to be available.
Doing this would leave just 3 different major rendering engines to code for, Webkit, Gecko and Opera, and would make web devs lives so much easier