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  • 520@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    Methinks there is a history lesson you haven’t learned.

    MS didn’t get into trouble just for bundling their browser. They got into trouble using every strongarm tactic they could think of to kill the browser market. They broke competitors, deliberately crippled APIs while IE used undocumented faster ones, and put IE in customer faces whether they wanted it there or not. MS used this tactic repeatedly to corner other markets, such as productivity suites. That’s why MS got nailed.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      At one point it went from an optional download to being required for the offering system. At that point you weren’t allowed to uninstall it.

      Of course that was back before the government was completely owned by tech corporations.

      • AnticorpEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Isn’t that unchanged? Edge is installed by default and I don’t think you can fully remove it…

        • 520@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          It was way worse back then. Nowadays you can actually remove it. Back then they hooked IE into numerous core UI things like the desktop wallpaper and file manager, so any attempt at actually removing it completely fucked your system