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> Another reason is that it's extra work to decouple the browser with the OS. I thought that argument was rejected already in 2001[0]. [0]: https://en.wikiped
by eyo2019 7y ago
> Another reason is that it's extra work to decouple the browser with the OS.
I thought that argument was rejected already in 2001[0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
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- criddell 7y agoMicrosoft was in a far different market position than Apple.
- Spivak 7y agoThere is a bit of nuance here. IE today still isn’t decoupled from Windows. MS has been shoving it into an ever smaller corner of Windows but IE is the OS provided webview for a lot of old crusty applications that needed to render HTML. What they’re talking about is IE the OS component didn’t mean that IE the user-facing general-purpose browser had to be the default.