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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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
and a lot of ie’s bits were loaded into memory with windows itself.
Yeah that’s the key point there, IE was faster, because it was using your memory even if you didn’t want to use it. So loading netscape was running 2 browsers at a time, and thus slower than using 1.
That was my experience growing up at the time.
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.
Eh, I remember using Netscape as a kid in school, very rarely, the browser opened up before then end of a class.
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.
Did a hallucinating bot wrote that comment!?!?