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Originally Posted by raekwon  Quote:
Originally Posted by SemperFideles Quote:
Originally Posted by raekwon To be fair to Apple, there was a checkbox next to "Safari" on the Apple Software Update app. Unchecking it would've prevented installation. | To be fair to Microsoft, they were just putting their browser in with their Operating System. | Yeah, that never really bothered me either and I didn't understand the collective "harumph" from the online community back when MS decided to do that. There was nothing that said that IE had to be used. |
That was a different time in the industry. Microsoft had fallen behind and missed the bow wave to some extent and Netscape was really
the browser at the time. I think a lot of it had to do with the "irrational exuberance" of the time that believed that countless $billions would be made by the owner of the dominant browser and here you have this behemoth that makes the OS for nearly every computer on the planet and they're bundling their browser into the OS in a way that cannot be distinguished from the OS. It's sort of funny to look back at now but, at the time, it was a big deal.