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hi Eliot
i think he weakness of windows always have been it's browser.at the first "internet explorer" and then "MS edge"
but since i installed beta edge chromium , i stopped working with "Google Chrome" and "Mozilla Firefox" and i do everything i need with "edge chromium"
thank u Microsoft
Looking forward to see ultimate version of this powerful browser
- Before Chrome, Internet Explorer had around 95% market share and was called flag ship.
HotCakeX Yes as it was a part of the OS.
Then, in 2009, the EU stipulated that this wasn't allowed anymore and MS had to offer a choice.
Not doing so resulted in a fine of 730 million dollars (2013).
Way back in 2004 MS was already fined for close to 500 million, because of the integrated Windows Media Player
On top they were fined for 1.35 billion for using high prices (2008)
Yes, the EU likes fines, so it seems.
Personally I had no problems with the integrated IE and/or Media Player. They seamlessly worked together. If users nonetheless wished to use another browser, fine, go ahead and install Firefox, Chrome or whatever. I used Firefox, tweaking settings and so on.
However, for newbies or elderly people or the ones that simply aren't interested in 3rd party software, well, the built in stuff usually was okay.
Until the EU felt it wasn't okay...
Ah well, anyway ... just my 2cts
Mike999 HotCakeX I have to speak up, here. What y'all are saying is 100% true. I was a die-hard IBM OS/2 user in the 1980s, and really had no use for Microsoft. Fast forward to the 21st Century. Modern Today, Windows is a very robust operating system. I think it really came into its own with Vista (I never had any problems with that), but especially with 7. Win 10 is even better!
So, how about this situation with the EU? All these fines, etc. are what happens when socialism is embraced. You'll notice that none of these fines come from the USA. I hesitated to go there, because it can be construed as political. However, it seems that several of you are on the same sheet of music as I.
At the end of the day, Microsoft has not, in the past decades, prevented users from embracing software not installed by them. You can even install other operating systems alongside theirs, and both play reasonably well with each other. In the end, it's choice. If I want Microsoft's browser, I use it. If I want Firefox or Chrome, I can use those, also. If I want to run Linux on the same machine, that's possible. I can use Windows Media Player (which sometimes I prefer to its replacement), or I can install someone else's and make it Windows's default. (I still miss Windows Movie Maker!)
Well, that's my $0.04 (somewhat more than 2 cents)! Thank you for letting me climb on my soapbox.
--Dan
