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.
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.