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yuhong
on Nov 3, 2014
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Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows...
decided to make it that way to force people to upgrade Windows when they wanted to upgrade IE.
Not true.
jessaustin
on Nov 3, 2014
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Umm, you can't just say that. In your estimation, what
was
the reason for this frustrating decision?
cowabunga
on Nov 3, 2014
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COM is the reason.
yuhong
on Nov 3, 2014
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More precisely, the way it uses COM.
jessaustin
on Nov 4, 2014
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API design is also a human decision-making process, vulnerable to commercial concerns and similar "evil" impulses. I believe that was even spelled out in the consent decree?
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Not true.