CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand

Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by gaius on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:04PM (#1839459)

you can't have a modern Web experience using only Microsoft products

How soon we forget! There would be no AJAX today had Microsoft not introduced XMLHttpRequest to make Outlook Web Access work...

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by cryptoz on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:12PM (#1839499)

Yeah, that was ~ 1 decade ago. I'm fully aware that you could have a modern web experience with Microsoft way back 10 years ago. But 10 years ago isn't today. Today is today, and Microsoft no longer provides a modern web experience.

AJAX isn't modern anymore. Don't you see that the AJAX innovation was a game changer, but that the game has moved on since then?

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by WildUtah on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @05:24PM (#1840512)

<i>There would be no AJAX today had Microsoft</i>

I was loading AJAX data into hidden <frame>s in Navigator 4 using a JSON-like hack in 1998. It worked just fine.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by dstein on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:45PM (#1840186)

Yes there would. You could do "ajax" style communication using <layer> tags in Netscape 4 even before IE4 came out.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by gaius on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @04:28PM (#1840321)

But no-one was.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by mkr-hn on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:39PM (#1840162)

And where would we be if AOL hadn't given us all unlimited dial-up access for a low monthly price?

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