For the last few years, Microsoft has tried to separate the modern version of Internet Explorer from its legacy: a relatively slow, insecure browser saddled with proprietary features. Now Mark Hachman reports at PC World that as recently as a few weeks ago, members of the Internet Explorer development team debated renaming the browser, presumably in an effort to eliminate any distaste from the software's earliest days. According to one member of the Explorer Develop Group during an AMA on Reddit: "It's been suggested internally; I remember a particularly long email thread where numerous people were passionately debating it. Plenty of ideas get kicked around about how we can separate ourselves from negative perceptions that no longer reflect our product today," wrote Jonathon Sampson. "The discussion I recall seeing was a very recent one (just a few weeks ago). Who knows what the future holds :)"
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday August 19 2014, @09:15AM
This is just one more example of what happens when you fire all the "naysayers".
MSFT's corporate culture has been reduced to, well, a corporate culture. Over the years the aggressive competition policy has been turned inwards and the people who didn't play-ball got silenced and ejected.
Now after meticulous and careful elimination, there's no opposition left when ideas like "tiles", "we're a service company not a product company" and "let re-brand it" come to surface.
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