• Mountaineer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

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      The tyranny of the default.

      “Here mum, I’ve installed Firefox for you, it’s better than Chrome in every way!”
      “My knitting circle website doesn’t work, I can’t download patterns, it says I need Chrome”

      Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
      It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.