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This is good, I guess? I have never understood (even when I was a Windows user) why they locked most of their browser upgrades to the OS. This is perhaps the
by mmuro 14y ago
This is good, I guess?
I have never understood (even when I was a Windows user) why they locked most of their browser upgrades to the OS. This is perhaps the greatest reason why their market share falls every year.
- smhinsey 14y agoIt's usually because it's tied to some sort of OS-level new feature. In the case of IE10, it's the rendering engine for (some kinds of) Metro style apps. If you're providing infrastructure for some new features, it's easy to rely on other new infrastructure, and pretty soon you can only run on the new OS. It probably was a serious effort to back-port it like this, although it's also possible IE10 represents a new model that changes things.
- elorant 14y agoBecause that was the way to put Netscape out of business. By tying the browser with the OS they made sure that every new PC would be running IE. In the long term of course this was an awful decision since upgrades come once every couple of years. Although I'm a .NET developer I sincerely hope that IE dies. IMHO it is the worst mistake MS ever made, by slowing down upgrade cycles that much they managed to alienate every web developer/designer out there by making their life miserable trying to fix pages that didn't work in IE.
- the_mitsuhiko 14y agoBecause the IE component is a core component of the operating system that other apps can rely on.