If Microsoft starts using WebKit, they'll find a way to fragment it and make their implementation of WebKit incompatible and unmergeable with the rest of the crowd.
No. Please, Microsoft, stay away from the projects I depend on.
That wouldn't be so bad, forking is where innovation can happen. The really bad part is when it would have the "Webkit" label in the user agent string, claim complete compatibility, claim they are using the most popular rendering engine, but being broken or incompatible in some fundamental way.
WebKit variations happen mostly in mobile platforms. That would be expected as the system resources are so much scarcer than they are on desktop computers.
If Microsoft starts using WebKit, they'll find a way to fragment it and make their implementation of WebKit incompatible and unmergeable with the rest of the crowd.
No. Please, Microsoft, stay away from the projects I depend on.