Mozilla, Google Irked by IE-Only Windows RT

JMH · May 10, 2012

Mozilla and Google have hit back at Microsoft over what they consider to be restrictive browser settings within the Windows on ARM version of the upcoming Windows 8 OS.

In a Wednesday blog post, Harvey Anderson, Mozilla's general counsel, argued that "Windows on ARM - as currently designed - restricts user choice, reduces competition and chills innovation."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404229,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05079TX1K0000993

JMH · May 11, 2012

What makes MS think it could ban non-IE browsers in Win8?

Remember the childish, exclusionary spitting match known at the time as "The Browser War?"
That was the time during the late '90s when Microsoft thought Netscape and the World Wide Web and the Internet in general was trying to horn in on a computer industry it commanded like toy boats in a little boy's bath, and reacted just as maturely.

Microsoft tried to make Internet Explorer the only browser anyone would ever use (by choice if they were willing, by caveat if not).

http://www.itworld.com/internet/276592/what-makes-ms-think-it-could-ban-non-ie-browsers-win8

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Mozilla, Google Irked by IE-Only Windows RT

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