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I still don't understand why everyone subscribes to this conspiracy theory... Microsoft builds web apps. Lots of them. The IE issues suck for those teams too.

I still don't understand why everyone subscribes to this conspiracy theory... Microsoft builds web apps. Lots of them. The IE issues suck for those teams too. Microsoft is building an online version of Office which needs to work in IE, FF, and Safari. They are also building a huge collection of Live services web apps. Why would they make it harder on themselves?

andreyf 18y ago
Inaction doesn't require a conspiracy - it would take a lot of resources to fix IE, so if it's not in Microsoft's interests to fix it, they won't. (I don't agree with lacker that they break it intensionally) Microsoft isn't in the business of revolutionizing the computing market anymore. It's in the business of sustaining a billion-$ enterprise based on on the status quo.
acdha 18y ago
Because it helps them: most of the IE suckage comes from needing to support IE along with the real browsers, which is proportionally a bigger cost for a smaller competitor than them. IE being so much slower than everything else also helps keep the idea that web apps must be slower than desktop apps alive.
lacker 18y ago
You're not addressing the main argument. The harder it is to develop web software, the more people rely on Windows and Office. Making it harder for their small web apps division to get their work done is not a big deal, compared to the danger of cannibalizing Windows and Office sales.