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Originally Posted by RogueSpear
Microsoft isn't even in the browser race. They never have been. I think they've been all too comfortable to let the likes of Opera cover their butts.
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When somebody makes a statement like that, I ask one question: Before 2006 or so, what was a better mobile browser than Pocket IE? If you can't name one, then Microsoft was certainly in the game.
Historically, Microsoft had a web browser back on Handheld PCs in the late 1990s, and Pocket PCs have always had one. Microsoft has certainly been there; they've just rested on their laurels too long.
Plus, on the Pocket PC at least, there are add-ons to get some of the functions Pocket IE is missing, like tabbed browsing. And WM 8 might not support IE 7 or IE 8 anyway.
Steve