Comment on Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them
Tja@programming.dev 8 months agoI mean, we got this “choose your default browser” screen for a few years. That solved it, right?
Comment on Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them
Tja@programming.dev 8 months agoI mean, we got this “choose your default browser” screen for a few years. That solved it, right?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 months ago
It actually did, solve it, unironically. The concern was that Microsoft was going to de facto take over the HTML standard and make it so that you had to use Internet Explorer and proprietary Microsoft extensions if you wanted to browse the web, eliminating all competition.
Now, more than 20 years later, Internet Explorer is defunct. Microsoft's current browser is built on Chromium, an open source engine that was created by one of its competitors. If anything it's Google that's now the problematic one.
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
This happened in 2009, when IE had a market share of 56% and declining. IE is (arguably) defunct because it sucked, not because of a one-time, court-mandated popup.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IE sucked since the beginning, that’s not the reason it died.
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
Everything sucked back then.
Then Mozilla started not sucking, then in 2008 Chrome came out and in 2009 when the popup was mandated, IE had declined to 56% market share from 90% highs years earlier.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 months ago
It happened in 2001, you're off by 8 years.
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
Back then Chrome didn’t exist and they didn’t implement the pop up, just assigned some overview and opened some APIs.