Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
by InclinedPlane on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @01:58AM
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IE 4 was far and away the best browser in its day. Nothing else was as fast and as reliable. Netscape had devolved into a steaming pile of garbage which had horrible resource usage problems aside from being massively unstable. Other competing browsers weren't much better than netscape either. It wasn't until years later that things changed.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
by njloof on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:12AM
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But Netscape ran cross-platform, without which the WWW would have devolved into a Windows-only niche product. And that would have meant the only tablets today would be running Windows.
Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
by InclinedPlane on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:30PM
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I don't think that follows. Also, it's not as though Netscape didn't have it's moments either. There was a time where it was better, a time where IE was better, a time where firefox was better, a time where chrome was better, and so on. Time marches on.