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Pretty sure he's talking about bundled IE and OEM licensing terms prohibiting preinstall of a competing browser, which probably stalled the development of web s
by jamie_ca 11y ago
Pretty 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 11y 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.