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Comment by asr

1 year ago

> in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE

This is not true.

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asr

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ascorbic  1 year ago

It was at a central point in the antitrust case against them in the 90s, and was found to be an anticompetitive practice.

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