Pero la ruptura nunca ocurrió. Microsoft apeló, la orden fue revocada y la empresa terminó sancionada, pero intacta.
De haberse concretado, la industria tecnológica pudo haber tenido un camino muy distinto: Windows por un lado, Office y otras aplicaciones por otro, y quizá un ecosistema de software mucho más fragmentado.
Fue la gran división de Microsoft que pudo cambiarlo todo… pero que nunca pasó.
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@gsuberland @ryanc and this is why noone should do Web Development on & for Windows!
It's just a pain in the ass; espechally when you have to deal with EoL stuff like IE6 - IE11 (Yes, that is STILL a problem!)…
El 2 de junio de 1996, 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 creó 𝑁𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜 como una respuesta estratégica al avance de 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 en la guerra de los navegadores.
Mientras Internet Explorer comenzaba a integrarse cada vez más con Windows, 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 buscaba llevar su tecnología más allá de la PC tradicional: televisores, consolas, set-top boxes y dispositivos conectados.
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Oorlog op je bureaublad! 💥
Op deze dag in 1996 werd IE standaard in Windows, en de 'browser war' was AAN. Plots was die blauwe 'e' niet meer weg te denken. 🫣
Welke browser gebruikte jij toen?
One of the biggest curses in #techsupport is that #microsoft called it WINDOWS Explorer and INTERNET explorer in #windows and 9/10 users don’t know what the windows explorer is (resp. don’t know its name) …
📢⚠️ Despite #InternetExplorer’s retirement, hackers are abusing the legacy MSHTA utility in stealthy fileless malware attacks targeting Windows users.
Read: https://hackread.com/microsoft-retired-ie-tool-mshta-fileless-malware-attack/
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times Sunday while discussing artificial intelligence during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona. Other commencement speakers faced similar backlash for their AI comments, as new graduates face a daunting job market. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports.
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Catch of the Day: The Forbidden Apple! 🍏🪟
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your CRT monitors, because our FrogFind radar has caught something today that feels like a relic from a parallel universe. Among all the Nintendos and Linux machines, this legendary identifier appeared:
Internet Explorer 5.17 on Mac (PowerPC)!
For everyone rubbing their eyes right now: Yes, Internet Explorer existed for the Mac, and it was a big deal! Following the historic "peace treaty" between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1997, Internet Explorer became the official default browser on all Apple computers for five years.
The craziest part? Mac IE was technically vastly superior to its Windows counterpart at the time! Microsoft built a completely bespoke rendering engine for Apple called Tasman, which was one of the very first to properly support CSS. Version 5.1.7 (released in the summer of 2003) was the absolute final update ever pushed for classic Mac OS 8 and 9 before Apple entirely shifted focus to their own browser, Safari.
The fact that today, over 20 years later, someone boots up an old PowerPC Mac (perhaps a colorful iMac G3?) and browses FrogFind with the Mac-exclusive Internet Explorer is a glorious time machine to an era when Microsoft and Apple surfed hand in hand.
Cheers to the Tasman engine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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