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I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer. Then it would have become a featu
by icey 16y ago
I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer.
Then it would have become a feature of Windows 7 instead of just another browser. It would have also given them the chance to try some new things without feeling like they had to keep any kind of IE legacy.
Yes, they would have had to support 2 different browsers for a time, but they have the resources to do that.
They could have taken the opportunity to compete more aggressively with a lighter weight browser. Microsoft is full of brilliant people, if they were given a mission that said "Make an HTML5 browser, give it the fastest, most rock-solid JS interpreter you can, and oh yeah, include the DLR by default" that they could probably deliver something pretty interesting without having to deal with the IE legacy.
- billswift 16y agoConsidering the differences between some versions of IE, they effectively end up supporting more than two different browsers at a time anyway.
- icey 16y agoYeah, you're totally right. I probably should have said that they would have to maintain two separate teams working on browsers; but I imagine they do that as well given the number of people that work on browser teams.
- atacrawl 16y agoI feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer. I totally disagree with this. You have to remember that a sizable portion of computer users don't really understand what a browser is. To these people, IE = internet. So for Microsoft to remove that kind of brand equity just wouldn't make sense.
- icey 16y agoWouldn't they be able to resolve that by packaging their new browser as the default in Windows 8? They could even call it the "Microsoft Bing! browser"
- atacrawl 16y agoThey could call it "Free Blowjobs," all it would end up doing is pushing people towards Firefox and Chrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_equity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_equity
- icey 16y agoMost of the non-computer savvy people I know don't call it internet explorer, or even the web. They call it "Google".
- rbanffy 16y ago> I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer. They could change the name: http://www.joseph.ca/words/internet/conqueror2.gif http://www.joseph.ca/words/internet/conqueror2.gif
- bitwize 16y agoIs this how Konqueror and Conkeror (two separate open-source browsers) got their names?
- alxv 16y agoThe name "Konqueror" is a reference to the two primary competitors at the time of the browser's first release: "first comes the Navigator, then Explorer, and then the Konqueror" -- From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror