> Old IE really did hold back technological progress for a long time. Seriously, IE5 or whatever was pre-installed on every Window OS and killed Netscape. It t

> Old IE really did hold back technological progress for a long time. Seriously, IE5 or whatever was pre-installed on every Window OS and killed Netscape. It took years until Netscape release Mozilla. I lived through this era. Microsoft back then was in the mindset that they were the gate keeper of PC through their OS. They did not want web applications that are OS agnostic. I think the currently strategy right now for most company with the advent of web is wall garden + ecosystem. Give the user base enough tools, software and hardware, to depend on that it'll make it hard to leave.