It’s in there:
> The final nail in the coffin was that after the release of Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft decided to tightly couple new Internet Explorer releases to Windows releases. So they dismantled the Internet Explorer team and integrated it into the Windows product team.
I recall obtaining a new version of IE was a happy occasion, from IE4 to 5 was such an improvement! Then 5.5! And then 6 came with XP and it was... the last release anybody really was eager for. I recall switching to Firefox not long after and I've not switched since.
IE6 was so dominant at the time there would have been little incentive to continue innovating rapidly.
I also wonder if they realised they were just building infrastructure that competitors would use to supplant them. Already by 2001 and 2002, Google was starting to dominate search.
I’m sure that someone did, but My guess is that it was more about some internal political warfare than anything.
Besides, enterprise customer adoption of browser based tech sold lots of SQL Server.
Re:The Era of the Trident Engine
by mixmastamyk on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:16PM
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Even if they had they missed mobile as well, so IE likely would have suffered a similar fate.
Just like the 1st edition of Bill Gates book, Microsoft decided the internet thing wasn’t as interesting as whatever they had cooked up. To their credit, they figured out they were wrong.