Microsoft spends millions and millions of dollars on R%26D every year, and yet even IE6 for Windows is incapable of basic CSS display functions, the preferred method of displaying information for the internet. Why, in this case and many others, was this done when Microsoft was fully capable of making it work properly?
Why did Microsoft make Internet Explorer so incapable of facile functions?spyware remove
Well, really that isn't the whole story... IE isn't incapable of using CSS styles, or running scripts, or most anything else a web browser should do. Only the total lack of security can be said to be poor engineering.
However, what IE does, it doesn't do in a standards-compliant fashion. That's because Microsoft is desperately trying to keep their monopoly. Since IE had over 95% of the browser market for a long time, people had to make sites that looked good in IE. Most people didn't ever bother to check their sites in any other browser, and Microsoft provided tons and tons of free advice and fancy editors (Frontpage, Word HTML export, Visual Studio, etc.) that automatically make pages that only work in IE. Why? Because if every time anyone tried anything else, their first reaction was, ''Hey all these websites look so very funny in (Opera/Firefox/Safari)'', they would switch back to IE before noticing how much better (faster, more secure, new features) the other browser really was.
Too bad for Microsoft, a bunch of web designers (myself included) found ways to make pages look good in a variety of different browsers, so people have a choice again. And that means people aren't stuck with Windows just to have Internet Explorer and see web sites looking nice.
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