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I think the main problem with IE technology was the way Microsoft pushed it down our throats. The tech wasn't necessarily bad, but when the giant corporation pu
by JepZ 9y ago
I think the main problem with IE technology was the way Microsoft pushed it down our throats. The tech wasn't necessarily bad, but when the giant corporation pushes new features while not respecting/implementing the existing standards very few people support their efforts.
So as a result 96% hated the IE and the other 4% were using other browsers. No wonder nobody wanted to use the newest Microsoft only features.
- byte1918 9y agoI was young in 1999 so not very experienced with technology but I really doubt people were hating on Microsoft back then. Sure, every company will have a hate camp but I doubt it was as spread as it was in the past few years.
- JepZ 9y agoActually, it was much worse back then. Nowadays Apple Macs are affordable and alternative PC operating systems are quite usable too. In 1999 there was a usable but limited/old Win 95 and Win 98 which was crashing on a daily basis. So you can imagine how frustarating it was to work with such a machine. Furthermore, microsoft was fighting open source software which didn't make them more popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents Compared to those times the data collection on modern Win 10 systems and forced updates are small sins ;-)
- UncleEntity 9y agocoughWindows MEcough