How soon we forget
Apparently "this time it's different, because Chrome is different, Chrome is pretty good", because, implicitly IE was pretty bad.
Except it wasn't. Yes, it was terrible by 2006 or something, because it was competing with Firefox which was actually a modern web browser. But that's not what IE originally competed with: it competed with Netscape Navigator. And by 1998 or something IE was just better than Navigator was: yes MS competed unfairly but they would have won that war even if they had competed fairly, because Navigator had turned into this bloated buggy horror which just needed to die.
Of course, once IE had killed Navigator and gained control over any kind of corporate installation it sat and rotted, because that's what monopolies do.
I think I agree with everything else about this article.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
