The Microsoft Monopoly

In the 90s, Microsoft was the undeniable ruler of PC industry, but all it took was one pesky web browser to bring it all crashing down. This is the story of how that didn't happen.

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[ZILtoid]

And now Google does the same with Chrome by breaking their competitors' browsers through their services. YouTube is notoriously buggy on all non-chromium browsers, on Edge the quality switches rapidly between 144p and 240p unless you force it to stay at a certain quality, on Firefox you have to deal with frame freezes even with h264ify.

[thoryan]

Microsoft still owns 75% of Desktop operating system market share. The monopoly isn't as big as it used to be, but that's still a big monopoly in my eyes. It's nice to see some competition though, but they're still having a hard time.

[typingcat]

"Since we believe in user's choice...."
"Hahaha."
The same can be said about iOS today.

[Aranimda]

Microsoft worked so hard to get market dominance with Internet Explorer, and when they finally got it, they became lazy and gave it away to Firefox and Chrome. If MS did not pause development after IE6, they would still be Mr 1 on the Windows browser ecosystem. Yes, IE9, 10 and 11 were good browsers, but came way too late to save IE.

[LloydLynx]

So when internet explorer is excluded from windows 10, that will make firefox the oldest browser still in development.

[AndAbel-AOD]

The key to overtaking MS's OS monopoly is gaming. If Linux can offer the same or better experience with all new games, it would be a surefire hit. Valve has made some headway in this regard(although they have become a monopoly as well with Steam), but nowhere near enough to really impact MS.

[DomtheDevilsRival]

I remember growing up in the 2000s I used Internet Explorer for everything. As time went on it got worse and worse and starting in early-to-mid 2010s, I flipped between Chrome and Firefox. Eventually I've become a Firefox user.

[MrGeocidal]

10:43 Steve Jobs says "We believe in choice" and then everyone starts laughing.

[kuropixeljp]

This was SO well put together. I love your work and this video was just fantastic. I hope you never stop making videos that appeal to tech geeks like me. You deserve way more subscribers and I hope more people discover your channel. Cheers and have a great rest of your day.

[winterboltgames]

Your videos are of very high quality sir whenever I watch them I feel that they have the early 2000s vibe! I watched almost all of them and I won't stop watching them! Keep up the amazing work!

[pierrotinturquoise]

Steve Jobs: 'Apple has decided to make Internet Explorer default browser on Macintosh'
Crowd:
People hated IE that time also! Oof! :"V

[CattoRayTube]

"... like ActiveX, a security nightmare..."

Ha!

[samic]

The ending also feature another irony because online services are now the main driver for Microsoft revenue.

[Shlooomth]

It’s hard to imagine there even being major competitors to DOS, given how monolithic Microsoft has become

[KrunchyTheClown]

I mostly use linux now. Windows is no longer required for me anymore, except for some games.

[atemoc]

Ahhhh the Embrace Extend Extinguish strategy of Microsoft... All Linux users here perfectly know what it is and what it means x)

[moth.monster]

The story of Internet Explorer is a scary one. We can't have the same IE6 problem happen with Google Chrome.

[MordethKai]

"more open and competitive" yay, we now have multiple monopolies....

[PtrkHrnk]

Chrome is the new Internet Explorer...

[askhowiknow]

To be fair, “concerned” is ambiguous. It could mean interested, worried, or just related.