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by alanh 5724 days ago
They could easily release a WebKit-based browser with Bing search built in and call it MSIE, solving both your/Microsoft’s and schammy’s problems.

(Edit: This is obvious to industry observers and has been “requested” by frustrated devs for years. But Microsoft won’t do it. Pride, probably, is the biggest reason.)
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masklinn 5724 days ago
And it would instantly break every single intranet built on MS technologies.
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alanh 5724 days ago
They could bake in Trident (IE’s rendering engine) and allow intranet administrators /IT to declare intranets render in IE7/8/9 mode. They already do something similar with their browsers, and IETab for Firefox essentially does this.
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dchest 5723 days ago
It's time to break them.
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