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In Addition To Project Spartan, Windows 10 Will Include Internet Explorer
An anonymous reader writes After unveiling its new Project Spartan browser for Windows 10, Microsoft is now offering more details. The company confirmed that Windows 10 will also include Internet Explorer for enterprise sites, though it didn't say how exactly this will work. Spartan comes with a new rendering engine, which doesn't rely on the versioned document modes the company has historically used. It also provides compatibility with the millions of existing enterprise websites specifically designed for Internet Explorer by loading the IE11 engine when needed. In this way, the browser uses the new rendering engine for modern websites and the old one for legacy purposes.
What you describe was only a "shit show" for end users. For Microsoft, it was likely very beneficial when it came to helping entrench Windows.
The "greatest shit show" when it comes to web browsers is, without a doubt, the destruction of Firefox by Mozilla. Not only did end users lose, but Mozilla has been losing, too.
A few years ago, Firefox held about 35% of the browser market. It was a well-respected browser that end users enjoyed using. It made their lives better.
Then Firefox 4 and later versions happened. Mozilla made a lot of bad decisions, from screwing up the release process for many months, to awful UI changes that most Firefox users did not want, to not fixing the memory leaks and slow performance that have hampered Firefox for so long, to totally missing the boat on mobile.
What's the end result of all of this? Firefox's users were driven away, and Firefox is now down to about 10% of the market, across both desktop and mobile platforms. Chrome for Android alone likely has more users now than all versions of Firefox across all of the platforms it supports.
These days, Firefox is detested. Firefox is even laughed at. Firefox is a dying browser.
The strangest thing about the fall of Firefox isn't that it was some competitor that crushed it. Firefox was ruined because of what Mozilla, and Mozilla alone, did to it. By not listening to Firefox users, and pushing one dumb change after another, while simultaneously not fixing the problems that users did have, Mozilla doomed Firefox to its current pathetic state.