Comment on Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them
FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 months agoIt 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.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 months ago
Seems to me they continued to take actions in 2009 as a result of their loss in 2001. "Some overview" continued after the case was decided. Unless there was a subsequent court case I'm unaware of?