Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from Your PC

Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by PreInternet01 on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:36PM (#34870469)

> can you imagine the raw hubris in 1995 to roll this out

Yup. And I can also imagine all the reasons why you dislike (to various extents, from mild to extreme hate) that. Yet, at the time, everyone was trying to do the exact same thing: capture the desktop. The mechanisms were different, but the end-objective all the same.

There is an alternate universe where we're all running JavaStations. I kinda like this version...

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by pantulis on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:21PM (#34870984)

And yet the desktop was somewhat captured not by IE+ActiveX controls but by Ajax technologies, another invention of IE. (And Flash, to another extent) Oh what days were those...

Today we are all basically running JavascriptStations.

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