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No, you're wrong. IE was a superior product, and a lot of Microsoft haters tend to forget this. Netscape was buggy, slow, and bloated compared to contemporaneou
by bitwize 3y ago
No, you're wrong. IE was a superior product, and a lot of Microsoft haters tend to forget this. Netscape was buggy, slow, and bloated compared to contemporaneous versions of IE, and IE had more features like better CSS support, IFRAME, XmlHttpRequest and the fastest Java runtime out there. Yes, Microsoft made a better JVM than Sun, and Sun's response was to sue.
IE won the browser wars -- fair and square.
- bacchusracine 3y ago> IE was a superior product, and a lot of Microsoft haters tend to forget this. Netscape was buggy, slow, and bloated compared to contemporaneous versions of IE Now explain Opera. I remember seeing the lengthy blog post by the CEO of Opera demonstrating how Microsoft was deliberately messing with the browser when users tried to access Hotmail and other Microsoft controlled sites. It's a matter of historical irony that Google used some of those same tactics on Microsoft later when they were trying to make Windows Phone a thing. >IE won the browser wars -- fair and square. There was nothing fair about it. Microsoft went so far as to tie the browser to the system in order to compete. It messed with compatibility to screw with users of competing browsers. You can snow people who didn't live through it, but you cannot snow those of us who were there and did.
- icedchai 3y agoI'm glad someone pointed this out. Netscape was incredibly buggy and unstable. Anyone remember the Netscape 4.x days where it crashed hourly? In the early 2000's, there was only one viable browser: IE 6. It was like this for a long time.