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I'm not sure why Microsoft wants to exclude other browsers from Windows RT. Since many people hate IE, wouldn't having more browser choice be a benefit? Mozilla
by jacktoole1 14y ago
I'm not sure why Microsoft wants to exclude other browsers from Windows RT. Since many people hate IE, wouldn't having more browser choice be a benefit? Mozilla or Google could probably offer a better browser on Windows RT than Microsoft. Does Micrsoft make much money off IE? Wouldn't it be a better value to focus on their comparative advantage creating operating systems to help others make the web browsers?
In the inevitable comparison to Apple: the iPad's browser resembles Safari, which a minority of computer users use, and has poor support for HTML5. If Mozilla could make Firefox for Windows RT, which would be the same browser many people are used to, and could potentially have better HTML5 performance on a tablet, would that not be an important advantage over Apple, at least for adoption among technical users?
- zmmmmm 14y agoBecause letting in FireFox means letting in Chrome which means letting in Google to entirely subvert their beautiful new OS and turn it into ChromeOS. MS needs to be in a position - just like Apple - to ensure that browser based apps remain at least just slightly worse than native ones so they keep a chokehold on the tollgates to the river of digital money that will come flowing through their app store.
- freehunter 14y agoTo be fair, Apple originally wanted web apps to be the only form of third-party software. There was a huge fuss, and that brought us the App Store.