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> Microsoft uses Google's framework for their own applications: Electron.

Electron is built on top of Google's Chromium but developed by a completely different set of people at GitHub initially for their text editor Atom. Later GitHub got acquired by Microsoft.

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To give more context, MS basically forked Chromium/Chrome as Edge, so if somehow Google would close off Chromium they wouldn't be left standing in the cold.

That said, OP's point is crystal clear, these silly new platform projects are the busywork of vestigial orgs.

Even github is full of bugs these days. I hate Microsoft products

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