Re:Can Microsoft really build a better browser?
by yanw on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @09:46AM
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Microsoft doesn't want to follow standards, their browsers are made to access stuff built by software they license and the only reason they are willing to adhere to some standards now is because they have fallen behind.
So in essence their shitty browsers are a kind of DRM.
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Re:Can Microsoft really build a better browser?
by rbanffy on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @12:10PM
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Their browsers have to be as broken as to make companies dismiss web applicatios as immature and unfit for the enterprise, but not broken enough as to make companies ditch IE in favor of other browsers.
It also has to be broken enough so that stuff built with their development tools work better with IE and developers have to choose between supporting IE and supporting other browsers.
To be fair, it's a very difficult task to maintain IE in the just enough broken zone.