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> We were trying to get our browser to be a platform, embrace and extend I think is what we said. We’ll embrace the Internet and we’ll extend with these ActiveX
by arp242 1y ago
> We were trying to get our browser to be a platform, embrace and extend I think is what we said. We’ll embrace the Internet and we’ll extend with these ActiveX controls.
Haha, yeah, I think you've forgotten the last third there Steve.
- bitwize 1y ago"Embrace and extend" was how Microsoft publicly described its strategy wrt web standards, or really open standards of any sort in the 90s. They were savvy enough not to say the quiet part out loud.