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IE is stagnant because Microsoft's only strategic incentive to make IE better is so that it isn't too much worse than any other browser. It really wouldn't mat
by tc 17y ago
IE is stagnant because Microsoft's only strategic incentive to make IE better is so that it isn't too much worse than any other browser. It really wouldn't matter if they had the best team of developers in the world.
- SwellJoe 17y agoMicrosoft had a very strong interest in dominating the browser market, and then crippling the web, so as to maintain their comfortable, high margin, desktop software business for a few more years. IE performed admirably for those goals. They extended the life of the desktop model for about seven more years, and gave themselves more runway to figure out this whole Internet thing. I kinda suspect they forgot that that was the point of those shenanigans, as they seem to have just now started trying to grasp the web; or maybe that's just how long it takes to turn a ship the size of Microsoft around.