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I don't think you are familiar. Because the litigation and antitrust lawsuits were to do with the bundling of IE and the coercion Microsoft applied against OEM
by threeseed 5y ago
I don't think you are familiar.
Because the litigation and antitrust lawsuits were to do with the bundling of IE and the coercion Microsoft applied against OEMs.
There was nothing against Microsoft for adding proprietary features.
- smoldesu 5y agoBecause proprietary features are fine? Nothing happened. ActiveX died. You're better off complaining about the "proprietary" APIs in iOS and how they're stifling cross-platform innovation because Apple refuses to publish them everywhere else. Whining about being forced to use certain platforms for certain features is pretty damn ironic when you're standing in iOS' corner. I say, let it happen. If Apple had a better browser, this wouldn't be a problem. C'est va.
- ece 5y agoActiveX is a far cry from Chromium-based browsers being available on every other platform which has nearly perfect Chrome compatibility save for some DRM bits if I remember correctly.