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by Someone 5749 days ago
If Microsoft moves to forced automatic updates of IE, I bet somebody would see a business opportunity and grab it: take WebKit and hack in IE (and COM components) compatibility. Such a product could be worth quite a bit to companies with large IE-only sites.

In fact, the release of IE9 may already be enough to create that market. The main problem I see with this is that it may be very hard to make a sufficiently-compatible IE clone.

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Surely it would be easier to hack around the forced updates than to turn Webkit into Trident.