MSFT won the browser war even though they got a late start. Once the internet was a viable platform, MSFT developed the superior browser and won the war.
Tee hee. And we just ignore the part about how they had a monopoly and bundled their browser with every copy of every desktop O/S in the galaxy for free, using tactics already found in the courts to have been illegal.
Today of course IE is the superior browser compared to Netscape. That's because Netscape went broke and didn't have any money to put into it, and M$FT had a cash-generating monopoly. Let's not forget that "Microsoft developed a superior browser" is not quite an accurate summary. What they did was to acquire (not develop) a SH*T browser, and then improve it over a series of releases as they illegally forced it down the public's throat. There are those who still claim that IE is a crappy browser; but nobody claims it's still worse than Netscape.
In fairness Netscape would have gone broke even if M$FT hadn't resorted to anti-trust violations--but that's another story.
But .NET? Sorry, I'm counting them out. 1,2,3, they're out. .NET will be late, it will be garbage, it will outrage rather than delight users, and this time the users will have a choice. M$FT may try to limit that choice, but even after the partial reversal of Jackson's findings and the rise of a Repbulican administration, they'll be constrained to something approaching legal behavior.
I'm going to enjoy this.
--QS |
