IE as a business failure?

I have always hated how internet Explorer did not follow standards and early versions broke perfectly formed HTML code.  However, John C. Dvorak argues the bad design that I resent has had severe business implications.

This Dvorak rant has got to be the weirdest yet very compelling argument I’ve heard all year – that Microsoft made a mistake creating Internet Exploder.  Considering the problems I’ve always had with it, I would not be surprised if it was a net loss to Microsoft financials.  To point that out as a strategic mistake is a strange kind of insight…

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