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> We watch Microsoft choke Netscape to death in the 90's, and at the end of the day nothing happened. Well, yeah, nothing happened as the IE development was gr

• ajross 7y ago
  The MS settlement with the DoJ was reached in 2001, about three months after the release of IE6. If anything I think history shows the opposite occurred. Internet Explorer continued rapidly evolving during the antitrust case and its development "grounded to a halt" after the government let Microsoft off the hook. Which makes enough sense. MS always viewed the web as an enemy and wanted people on windows apps as their primary gateways. They needed a browser until they won, then they tried to kill it. Ultimately it was Apple who succeeded at that vision, obviously.
  • chx 7y ago
    > Ultimately it was Apple who succeeded at that vision, obviously. At what vision?
    • ajross 7y ago
      An OS where almost all interaction is through applications written to a proprietary API and not a common cross-platform standard.
  • leadingthenet 7y ago
    Apple unfortunately did not succeed at that vision, and all the damn Electron apps running on my Mac are proof of that.