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This is really exciting. I think it can be better when companies like Microsoft demonstrate tight top-to-bottom integration. But it's also hard to forget previ
by bane 12y ago
This is really exciting. I think it can be better when companies like Microsoft demonstrate tight top-to-bottom integration.
But it's also hard to forget previous behavior when they used that same integration to screw people over. Let's hope they follow a more benign path this time.
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoHow did Microsoft screw you over by integrating something into Windows?
- jamie_ca 12y agoPretty sure he's talking about bundled IE and OEM licensing terms prohibiting preinstall of a competing browser, which probably stalled the development of web standards by a few years.
- throwawaykf05 12y agoThat's not what stalled the development of web standards. That's what helped them win the browser wars, during which, mind you, nobody was really trying to follow any standards. Everyone was racing to introduce proprietary features. Microsoft won partly by strong-arming OEMs into not pre-installing other browsers, and partly by simply building a better browser. But just as they won, they got sued big for antitrust, and they let IE languish, which may or may not be due to the lawsuit. This was what slowed adoption of new features because sites were overwhelmingly designed for IE, and IE was not improving at all.