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It's sad that so much work had to be done by Google to get these standards available to IE users. Had IE been open source, a few patches would have been release
by windsurfer 17y ago
It's sad that so much work had to be done by Google to get these standards available to IE users. Had IE been open source, a few patches would have been released to the upstream maintainers, and a fix could have been released years ago.
- thwarted 17y agoIt's sad that so much work had to be done by Google to get these standards available to IE users. Good point, it's things like this that make me wonder where anyone gets the idea that Microsoft will ever be able to be a serious, long term contender to Google in Internet related tech, search included -- right now, Bing is a (perceived) contender merely because of Microsoft's size compared to Google. Google is able to keep their main product, search, going while actively working to improve other companies' deficient and ancient products. Admittedly, Google has an interest in getting people to use the Internet more and this kind of tech is part of that goal, but these kinds of releases somehow show that Google doesn't really consider Microsoft to be a (serious) competitor, whereas Microsoft does.
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- ZeroGravitas 17y ago"Google has an interest in getting people to use the Internet more" And that is why Microsoft is on a hiding to nothing. They're producing search engines and browsers yet paradoxically, they lose power and money as people use the internet more. Something's got to give before they can start pulling in a single direction.