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Comment by fardo

Defaults are powerful, and IE was default.

If you’re a large bureaucracy in the early 2000s you went with whatever was default - and that was IE.

Defaults were seen as so powerful, that MS was anti-trusted for this. They did it anyways at the time because the juice was worth the squeeze.

parent fardo 3 years ago

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