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The problem with them including IE with windows was that IE wasn't following standards. The idea was to force the server market to tend towards IIS instead of
by dec0dedab0de 12y ago
The problem with them including IE with windows was that IE wasn't following standards. The idea was to force the server market to tend towards IIS instead of other servers. Netscape cared because they made their real money from server software.
- bphogan 12y agoAnd this is really important to remember. For a good time in the 2000s I worked on software that only worked in IE because the "tech people" thought that "Windows Integrated Authentication", where you would just automatically be logged into a web app if you used IE + IIS as the server, was more secure. It was a nightmare of coupling, and it's one of the reasons that IE was so hard to get rid of in the enterprise.