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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by recoiledsnake on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:56AM (#1783360)
They keep IE6 outdated? I thought they released IE7, IE8 and now IE9 after that.

I don't think companies are going to develop for just IE mobile like they did for IE6. And how exactly does adding support for HTML5 break the HTML for older web apps?

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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by rbanffy on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:01AM (#1783383)
Their strategy relies on fragmenting the browser space. So, they have various subsets of various versions of HTML, each supported by a different browser on different platforms. All that so you can't deliver web applications easily.

Companies who swallowed their poison pill in the early 2000's and built their intranets dependent on IE 6 are feeling the pain now, having to deploy intrusive security measures that don't really secure anything while shouldering the cost of "upgrading" the apps to browsers that run on the OS they want to deploy.

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