Microsoft and the Web

Definitely see the 1 year later 2014 update to this report.

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This Google+ Post is a picture that captures the essence of the continuing story about Microsoft and the Web. This slide is very telling because it reveals once again and summarizes neatly Redmond’s attitude to the Web for nearly 20 years. Remember Bill Gates said in 1995 the Internet was going to be the biggest trend in computing. But he could not find a way to exploit it like his Windows+Office monopolies.

So then in 1997 to defeat Netscape Browser and Server, Bill made a promise to US Business – Microsoft in IE and IIS would implement all the W3C and other Internet standards. It is a promise he and Microsoft religiously never kept. Rather, he and his IE Troopers used outright sabotage [Java corruption; incomplete and proprietary versions of DOM, JavaScript and HTML; stone walling on W3C recommendations; etc, etc] plus 5-6 years of no feature updates to IE.

Dean Hachamovitch is his longstanding head hacker of IE and Web standards. Thank you Dean. Thank you Bill. Even Steve Ballmer is going and gone at Redmond but not Web Whacker Supremo, Dean Hachamovitch. Nearly 20 years later and Microsoft has not figured out how to capture or effectively cripple the Web; so they continue their slow motion sabotage. HTML5 is the latest Web Standards victim.

The evidence of Microsoft negligence is clear cut and can be seen in the HTML5Test.com comparison of the 5 major browsers.

This “HTML5 Support by Microsoft” tells you about the continuing animosity towards Web Developments harbored in Redmond. In sum,   this pic  tells you why in this vast Internet market, Apple and Google, no ethical angels themselves, still have much more Web credence than Microsoft.