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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.
Very hard to take this comment seriously when it doesn't take into account the fact that Internet Explorer was included for free and by default on Windows
That was my experience growing up at the time.