Microsoft was successfully forced to unbundle IE?
replyNot really? In the US it kept being bundled by default, they just made it possible to disable the front end; the MSHTML rendering engine was unremovable.
replyIt doesn't even exist any more, and they were required to open up APIs to third-party browser makers. We'd be worse off without the settlement.
replyThey just renamed it to Edge when they rebooted the UI. It's still a bundled browser, indeed the bundling is more aggressive than ever.
replyEdge is Chromium. Their competitor's engine.
replyIt is now, but it initially did use Trident. I was on the IE team when Edge launched.
replyDoes "Microsoft now bundles Google's browser engine" really scream "won the browser wars" to you?
replyDo you not think the settlement requiring APIs be opened up helped enable Chrome at all?
No, because the post-settlement era was actually the era of consolidated IE dominance. Chrome only started because MS, in their (unbroken by the FTC) dominance had sat around doing nothing for the web. Chrome also avoided using platform APIs because they wanted to be cross-platform.
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