> They again pushed a inferior product to market through questionable business tactics making a purposely broken browser the dominant player for a very long time.
That's not true. You have false memory of things that never happened. When IE6 came out, it was nothing short of incredible.
Are you sure? It was some time ago but I remember Mozilla being a better browser overall and far more secure. Maybe I am just remembering wrong, or I'm a few years off but I don't remember IE ever being comparable in quality to Mozilla, now Firefox, until fairly recently (IE8/9).
Even the wiki page for IE6 states (among many other negative things):
"This version of Internet Explorer is currently widely criticized for its security issues and lack of support for modern web standards, making frequent appearances in "worst tech products of all time" lists, with some publications labelling it as the "least secure software on the planet."
However it is wiki, so please do tell, what exactly made the release of IE6 so incredible when compared the the other browsers of its time??
When Firefox came out in 2003/2004, that was impressive and better than IE. Before then, Netscape and Mozilla were slow and very buggy.
IE6 was released in 2001, and at the time it was great. The fact that MS stopped working on it and the fact that most corporate IT networks stayed on it so long when the rest of the world had moved on are what gave it a bad name in the years since. But when it was released, it was great.
That's not true. You have false memory of things that never happened. When IE6 came out, it was nothing short of incredible.