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Hmm I guess this analysis explains why IE has sucked for so long

• kalleboo 8y ago
  Microsoft has a long history of extend, embrace and extinguish, IE was just one of those. https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-exec-ms-wanted-to-extend-embrace-and-extinguish-competition/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-exec-ms-wanted-to-extend... > It was in this meeting that Microsoft executives said they intended to "embrace, extend, extinguish" competing technologies, including Internet standard HTML, McGeady said https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/atr/legacy/2006/04/10/2613f.pdf https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/atr/legacy/2006/... > we will loose [sic] the Internet platform battle if we do not have a significant user installed base. The industry would simply ignore our standards. Few would write Windows apps without the Windows user base. — at your level, if you let your customers deploy Netscape Navigator, you loose [sic] the leadership on the desktop.