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Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study Finds
(research.mozilla.org)
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1264137/microsoft-blocks-browser-choice-for-1-4-billion-windows-10-11-users-page-84-study-finds
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Lobsters
Full Report(PDF).
Note: The number in the headline is the total number of Windows 10 and Windows 11 users mentioned in page 84 notes in the report.
Welcome back to the year 2000…
Eh, Internet Explorer beat out Netscape because the latter was incredibly bloated and could take dozens(plural) of minutes to boot.
If you wanted something done quick, if you tried IE you'd be done and moved on by the time Netscape loaded; even if once it loaded it was faster at loading pages.
The fuck? IE was absolutely dogs hit performance wise not to mention their non standard support of Javascript (JScript) was horrible. To accommodate IE you needed VBScript to perform well so basically a whole different site.
Netscape was always better but once they shoved IE on everyone you were left with doing 2 sites for a smaller percentage. Most corps flat out wanted IE only and VBScript / ASP and cut out the Javascript. Even then you sometimes had to do things ass backwards to make it work on IE.
That's my lived experience when myself and my friends all chose to stop using NN. It is irrelevant if you believe me or not as that is the truth.