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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IE sucked since the beginning, that's not the reason it died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It happened in 2001, you're off by 8 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Back then Chrome didn't exist and they didn't implement the pop up, just assigned some overview and opened some APIs.

However, the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor did it prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future.

The popup came in 2009.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The 2009 dispute was in the EU, to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The didn't cause the browser popup then

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why bring it up then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why did I bring up a regulation that the EU imposed on Microsoft, in the comments of an article about regulations that the EU wants to impose on tech giants?

You're right, totally out of context.