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photostill · 16-09-12, 17:55

Google is heading down a slippery slope where Microsoft has been already. The EU took Microsoft to court because of anti-trust violations in not allowing other browsers to be picked by choice, as it came only with IE. It was fined a huge sum of money over it.

Having said that, I see two reasons why Google would do this. One of them supports "Do No Evil" and one goes against it.

The first reason that would support it is that IE has traditionally been one of the most insecure browsers around. Seems every hacker in the world can and wants to hack IE as it is the most used browser but that figure has changed over the last few years with Chrome gaining market share from both IE and FireFox. Since the browser IE is proprietary, no real changes can be made to it by its users. Microsoft has never been a real fan of supporting default methods of net connection to websites, making programming for support of IE a nightmare for webmasters.

The second reason that would go against that motto is that Google by and far makes it's income from advertising. Advertisers want yardsticks saying how effective it's ads are and wants as large a distribution as possible for the money. Do not think for a moment that the Chrome browser is given to the public for free out of the goodness of Googles' heart. All surfing is going to send data back to Google for datamining. That datamining is valuable data for sale or to support sales of ads by Google. It can't be different given Google's income methods.

This is Google's way to steer more users to it's browser for a larger database.

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photostill The Enigma Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 9,977 Thanks: 3,009 Thanked 1,524 Times in 928 Posts	Re: Google killing support for Internet Explorer 8 in November Google is heading down a slippery slope where Microsoft has been already. The EU took Microsoft to court because of anti-trust violations in not allowing other browsers to be picked by choice, as it came only with IE. It was fined a huge sum of money over it. Having said that, I see two reasons why Google would do this. One of them supports "Do No Evil" and one goes against it. The first reason that would support it is that IE has traditionally been one of the most insecure browsers around. Seems every hacker in the world can and wants to hack IE as it is the most used browser but that figure has changed over the last few years with Chrome gaining market share from both IE and FireFox. Since the browser IE is proprietary, no real changes can be made to it by its users. Microsoft has never been a real fan of supporting default methods of net connection to websites, making programming for support of IE a nightmare for webmasters. The second reason that would go against that motto is that Google by and far makes it's income from advertising. Advertisers want yardsticks saying how effective it's ads are and wants as large a distribution as possible for the money. Do not think for a moment that the Chrome browser is given to the public for free out of the goodness of Googles' heart. All surfing is going to send data back to Google for datamining. That datamining is valuable data for sale or to support sales of ads by Google. It can't be different given Google's income methods. This is Google's way to steer more users to it's browser for a larger database. __________________ You can help this site, by clicking on the link below to buy a Premium Account. & Thank you for helping us. Click;