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They could easily release a WebKit-based browser with Bing search built in and call it MSIE, solving both your/Microsoft’s and schammy’s problems. (Edit: This

by alanh 16y ago

They could easily release a WebKit-based browser with Bing search built in and call it MSIE, solving both your/Microsoft’s and schammy’s problems. (Edit: This is obvious to industry observers and has been “requested” by frustrated devs for years. But Microsoft won’t do it. Pride, probably, is the biggest reason.)

masklinn 16y ago
And it would instantly break every single intranet built on MS technologies.
- alanh 16y ago
  They could bake in Trident (IE’s rendering engine) and allow intranet administrators /IT to declare intranets render in IE7/8/9 mode. They already do something similar with their browsers, and IETab for Firefox essentially does this.
- dchest 16y ago
  It's time to break them.