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EdgeHTML is also used for embedding HTML into UWP, and controls have been released for WPF and Win32. I wonder what will be the story of that. Will that be transparently changed to Chrome, can it be changed to Chrome or will EdgeHTML be used only for that?

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I suspect the rise of Electron apps, including Microsoft's own applications like Visual Studio Code, are actually driving this decision. Effectively within Microsoft, Chromium has already won over EdgeHTML for desktop applications.

This is so important to consider, chromium is more than a browser these days

Tweet from journalist Simon Le Gros Bisson:

EdgeHTML and Chakra will still be maintained; I was told that the transition to Chromium for web views in UWP and the like is a longer term plan.

https://twitter.com/sbisson/status/1070726583445409792

New controls for Chromium coming, but for now EdgeHTML controls will remain and get serviced. No major features.

I'm doubtful they would/can change the controls over transparently. My guess is that once the Chromium engine is ready, binaries built against new Windows SDKs will use Chromium, and existing binaries will continue to use EdgeHTML.

On that note- what is the engine used by outlook, word et al.? I seem to recall outlook used something different from trident back when ie was the main browser.

Yes, and was ironically more standards compatible than WordHTML they use now. AFAIK they changed to WordHTML with or after Outlook 2007 [0]

[0]: https://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/wordhtml.htm

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