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The web survived MSFT, what's different about Google?

• agentdrtran 6y ago
  did it survive if it led to another (albeit different) monoculture?
  • robertlagrant 6y ago
    Yes. Microsoft wasn't automatically bad for the web because they were dominant. They were bad because they were a closed process, and soon after they won the browser wars they closed the Internet Explorer team, allowing no further progress to be made. Without the Mozilla team creating a credible, Windows-based rival, and subsequently Google creating Chrome, the Web would look really different today.
• jjice 6y ago
  Not OP, but the web is a much larger platform that it was when Microsoft ruled it.
• pjmlp 6y ago
  Nope, it just changed landlord.