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I tell you how. Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start
by albasha 10y ago
I tell you how. Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start playing their monopoly game. And the cycle will start again.
- KirinDave 10y agoThe entire ecosystem has changed. Microsoft really isn't in a position to "embrace and extend" and they probably never will be again. And they're taking more radical steps towards ongoing transparency and fairness than most other companies I could name, including things like their compiler & runtime licensing, pledges to never use over API use, directly supporting their cloud service competitors. I'm not sure what value your grudge gives to you, but let me offer you a new target for hate: The only people given a free license to lock down the ecosystem from hardware all the way out to setting prices and fees in the software market is Apple, I guess. THEY won't betray us!
- ceejayoz 10y ago> Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start playing their monopoly game. Microsoft employs smart people. It has become clear that long-term, that approach simply doesn't work. There are legal consequences to being an abusive monopoly, and on top of that we've seen that the software ecosystem routes around the bottleneck pretty rapidly.
- blibble 10y agoI dunno, it seemed to work pretty well. if they hadn't undermined themselves by developing XMLHTTPRequest I wonder if we'd still be on Windows using IE
- ceejayoz 10y agoIt worked well for a while. Then the DOJ nearly broke up the company, IE6 became a pariah, and they've had to spend the last decade rebuilding trust. People will be more wary in the future, as well.