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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by yuhong on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:22PM (#8552844)
decided to make it that way to force people to upgrade Windows when they wanted to upgrade IE.

Not true.

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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by jessaustin on Monday November 03, 2014 @03:36PM (#8553315)
Umm, you can't just say that. In your estimation, what was the reason for this frustrating decision?
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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by cowabunga on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:25PM (#8553629)
COM is the reason.
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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by yuhong on Monday November 03, 2014 @06:02PM (#8554155)
More precisely, the way it uses COM.
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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by jessaustin on Monday November 03, 2014 @07:00PM (#8554384)
API design is also a human decision-making process, vulnerable to commercial concerns and similar "evil" impulses. I believe that was even spelled out in the consent decree?
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