Windows: The next killer application on the internet (1994) [pdf]

Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by Spooky23 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:42PM (#29618712)

Sort of. Microsoft’s goal was to funnel you into a minimally viable browser and funnel you into grownup apps.

Once they killed Netscape, they literally disbanded the IE team. They also did anti-competitive shit like buy and slow-roll Hotmail to protect the golden goose. (enterprise EAs of windows and office + oem licensing.)

They are doing the same thing today with identity and security for enterprises.

Chrome is Google’s attempt at a first party solution stack. It’s weird though as chrome is owned by different teams in Google than other user facing products.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by kevingadd on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:47PM (#29619310)

I don't know that I buy that being the strategy, at least all the time. HTAs were a very early swing at what 'Progressive Web Apps' are today and back when you had access to activex components, etc those apps could do tons of stuff. Of course, the security attack surface was a nightmare so that all got slowly murdered, but I think at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by solarkraft on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:10PM (#29619523)

> at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies

Tied to Windows, mind you.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by forgotmypw17 on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:01AM (#29622170)

Google promotes building (and builds themselves) in such a way that it only works well on Chrome, just barely works on Firefox and Safari, and doesn't work at all in any other browser.

Unless you count reframed Chromium as "other browser", the equivalent of using Microsoft's IE-based WebBrowser component back in the day.

I really don't see much of a difference.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by kevingadd on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:59PM (#29619952)

Hey, they shipped IE for Mac!

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by GekkePrutser on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:11PM (#29621183)

Without ActiveX support of course as that depended on Windows DLLs.

Not that that was a bad thing though. As mentioned it is a really bad idea to auto download code off some random website and execute it. Naive we all were back then...

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by Spooky23 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:05PM (#29620452)

Maybe. But there were a thousand other cuts. The weird Java integration, IE5 forever, etc.

Microsoft isn’t run by dumb people.

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by ChuckNorris89 on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:09AM (#29622460)

>Once they killed Netscape, they literally disbanded the IE team.

I find that dubious. Do you have any sources for that?

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Re:Windows: The next killer application on the internet (199... by kanwisher on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:58AM (#29624388)

Look at release schedule after ie 6 there were almost no major upgrades for years. Ie 7 was a pretty minimal upgrade. It wasn’t until ie8 did they start doing new features again and this is only after chrome started taking massive mindshare

First link on a google search confirms all this

https://www.quora.com/What-strategic-thinking-persuaded-Micr...

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