Re:Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft
by CamperBob2 on Sunday October 07, 2012 @07:04PM
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Consumers did not gravitate to IE because it was "legitimately better" than Netscape. It never was.
It damned sure was. The browser game was Netscape's game to throw away. And sure enough, they did just that with 4.
IE is still around today because of the large number of legacy inhouse applications and websites that were developed for it back in the day. There isn't a single thing it does better than Chrome, Firefox or even Opera.
None of the browsers shipping today have anything to do with the browsers that were shipping in the NS4/IE4 era.
It damned sure was. The browser game was Netscape's game to throw away. And sure enough, they did just that with 4.
IE is still around today because of the large number of legacy inhouse applications and websites that were developed for it back in the day. There isn't a single thing it does better than Chrome, Firefox or even Opera.
None of the browsers shipping today have anything to do with the browsers that were shipping in the NS4/IE4 era.