Yeah, the excuse for taking away freedoms usually is "security". Walled gardens are one of the problems. They should be rendered useless. It's a company that

Yeah, the excuse for taking away freedoms usually is "security". Walled gardens are one of the problems. They should be rendered useless. It's a company that caused many people to suffer through Internet Explorer for 20 years. I don't think that security[1] or making the platform look bad[1] is the primary motivation with blocking competing browsers. MS saw that other companies got away with it using different tactics, so they just changed their approach. [1] http://www.debugcomputer.net/uploads/images/ie%201.jpg http://www.debugcomputer.net/uploads/images/ie%201.jpg