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Re:V8 Release v8.6 by ng12 on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:21PM (#24549086)
The web survived MSFT, what's different about Google?
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Re:V8 Release v8.6 by jjice on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:28PM (#24549131)
Not OP, but the web is a much larger platform that it was when Microsoft ruled it.
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Re:V8 Release v8.6 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:11AM (#24551433)
Nope, it just changed landlord.
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Re:V8 Release v8.6 by agentdrtran on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:27PM (#24549125)
did it survive if it led to another (albeit different) monoculture?
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Re:V8 Release v8.6 by robertlagrant on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:31AM (#24551539)
Yes. Microsoft wasn't automatically bad for the web because they were dominant. They were bad because they were a closed process, and soon after they won the browser wars they closed the Internet Explorer team, allowing no further progress to be made.

Without the Mozilla team creating a credible, Windows-based rival, and subsequently Google creating Chrome, the Web would look really different today.

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