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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by neogodless on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:58PM (#32986137)
No, they did not do "this very thing."

They bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, and yes, they did some dirty tricks to try to keep users on IE rather than use alternate browsers. But "other browser engines are forbidden on the phone or tablet" was not something they did.

They still are not "doing the same thing" as that.

Then again, I'm not in your imagination.

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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by batty_alex on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:50PM (#32986773)
> They bundled Internet Explorer with Windows

Yeah... this wasn't what actually got them in trouble and is a gross oversimplification. They were actively working against Netscape by making other browsers *not work* on the OS. It also wasn't standards-compliant and had all sorts of proprietary tech (VBScript, JScript, OCX, and MSHTML) that would only work with their browser

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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by AussieWog93 on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:28PM (#32986465)
>Then again, I'm not in your imagination.

Something something don't be snarky something something HN rules.

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