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It's not ridiculous at all. Microsoft were using their monopoly in desktop operating systems to gain browser market share. This doesn't benefit anyone apart fro
by weavejester 17y ago
It's not ridiculous at all. Microsoft were using their monopoly in desktop operating systems to gain browser market share. This doesn't benefit anyone apart from Microsoft.
- jsonscripter 17y agoI would just like to add that monopolies do not deserve the same rights as ordinary businesses.
- axod 17y agoI don't think people would have minded as much if IE weren't the worst browser ever created. Add to that the fact that Microsoft abandoned IE for years, leaving everyone high and dry.
- petercooper 17y agoActually, IE being a hideous browser should make it better as it makes it easier for competition to succeed and gives people more reason to investigate and accept alternatives. Consider if all manufactured cars came with a really crappy "default" radio with horrible sound. The majority of drivers would choose to upgrade the radio to a better one, thus making the marketplace for car radios a healthier, more competitive one. If the cars came with amazing radios built in, hardly anyone would switch.