

Google looks to lay a dinosaur of a browser to rest




or support Internet Explorer 6.  Writes Google:





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RE: Microsoft's mistake costs everyone else
By BZDTemp on 2/2/2010 3:51:18 PM , Rating: 0
It was not a mistake but Microsoft trying to gain control over the internet. They used their dominance in OS to stuff IE down peoples throat and had it not been for Mozilla they would have succeeded!

By porkpie on 2/2/2010 4:26:36 PM , Rating: 3
And All Life On Earth As We Know It Would Have Ended!

Seriously, think you can tone down the drama queen act a bit?

RE: Microsoft's mistake costs everyone else
By ICBM on 2/2/2010 5:43:44 PM , Rating: 2
Had it not been for IE being "stuffed" down out throats, we could never have downloaded Firefox,Opera, etc..

I am tired of people claiming Microsoft was/is pushing IE on people. So what if Microsoft includes a browser with the OS, you aren't forced to use it. Last time I checked you can download any browser you want.

By porkpie on 2/3/2010 1:13:13 AM , Rating: 2
Very true. People seem to forget that before MS started distributing a free browser, you actually had to PAY to buy one. Would that fly today? Not hardly.

Had MS started developing Windows today, they'd be sued by the EU for "stuffing a GUI down our throats", since prior to Windows/OS2, our notion of an operating system didn't include a graphic shell. Microsoft should be praised for continually expanding our concept of what an OS is. God knows none of want to go back to the days of having to buy and install separate products such as networking, disk defragger, browsers and ftp clients, and a bazillion other things that we now take for granted because they were "crammed down our throats" by MS.

