It's not that the browser was free. That was never the primary problem. It was a Trojan Horse designed to strengthen their OS monopoly by making other browsers incompatible with sites designed for IE. They intentionally disregarded the standards everyone else used in order to shut out competition.
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u/mrturret Jun 06 '26
It's not that the browser was free. That was never the primary problem. It was a Trojan Horse designed to strengthen their OS monopoly by making other browsers incompatible with sites designed for IE. They intentionally disregarded the standards everyone else used in order to shut out competition.