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I wouldn't be surprised by this. MS is in a real bind in this case. Many of their cash cow corporate customers are reluctant to upgrade to anything past IE 6. S

by JunkDNA 18y ago

I wouldn't be surprised by this. MS is in a real bind in this case. Many of their cash cow corporate customers are reluctant to upgrade to anything past IE 6. So MS is essentially putting effort into subsequent browser releases largely used by the less-profitable part of their user base. Those corporations are going to cling to IE6 and XP until there is no other option because they just don't want to go through the upgrade pain. MS can't really use the browser to force adoption of Windows the way they wanted to before. They're not in a position (like Apple and the iPhone) where the browser is critical to their competitive advantage in a new business space. So really, what are they getting out of it?

thwarted 18y ago
MS can't really use the browser to force adoption of Windows the way they wanted to before. Ironically, they brought it on themselves with a combination of such a bad and non-standard implementation that many corporate sites were, and continue to be, tied to a broken version of IE, and a painful upgrade path by tying the browser to the OS. If IE was treated more as an application rather than a component, and multiple versions of it could be on the same install without hacks or issues, corporations would be able to ease into an upgrade path, of both the browser and the OS.