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Microsoft's evil tactics seem childish in comparison to Google's. Where Microsoft bundled a browser with their OS, Google did that with Android, and created an
by causality0 6y ago
Microsoft's evil tactics seem childish in comparison to Google's. Where Microsoft bundled a browser with their OS, Google did that with Android, and created an entire separate OS running on their browser, and paid devs to include their browser as opt-out installation in tons of unrelated freeware, and leveraged their control of the most performance-hungry sites on the internet to make those sites run noticeably smoother on their browser compared to their competitors.
Despite coming with Windows, being the default web standard, and being the proscribed browser for government computers with a market share of 95% in 2004, IE immediately lost a third of that when something better, Firefox, came along. Google would never in a million years let another browser become a threat to their dominance. They'd either get bought out the moment they began picking up steam or Google would crush them with ads, exclusive site functions, and search page warnings.
The only real difference is market share. The Google/Apple duopoly enables behavior a hundred times more egregious than anything Microsoft ever did.
- Barrin92 6y agoYep, imagine Microsoft banning developers from every Windows operating system because you made a Microsoft Word document complaining about Microsoft prices The world we live in makes Microsoft look innocent, and they basically owned the entire OS market
- causality0 6y agoThe easier computing devices get the less technical the users have to be to use them, and the more vulnerable they are to being taken advantage of.
- nabla9 6y agoMicrosoft was already evil long before browsers and the web. Jesus. Someone should write history book about this so that people don't forget. Their OEM contracts, stealing products killing startups in legal battles. MS was fully monopolistic for a long time.
- drewcoo 6y agoWell it's a good thing the author didn't claim those things equivalent then. Or he might have seemed silly.
- xiphias2 6y agoIE6 was so painful because it was performant (great for end users), but closed source and full of bugs that the developers had to work around to not look stupid from the non-tech world (instead MS fixing them over time). This was happening for a long time (10-15 years), which was very frustrating. I don't think Google Chrome is that bad for the world.