Thanks for inciting the browser wars
Because of IE’s forced nature, it became standard practice to choose a browsing team as home computing became more accessible. In the 2000s, my open source-browsing pals would stick their tongues out at me for using IE, while the rest of my friends defaulted to Apple’s Safari, which came bundled with their Macs.
I eventually grew frustrated with Internet Explorer’s existence when Google Chrome started trending on the market share charts. Microsoft had launched IE 9, but I had already jumped ship. It was under 50% market share when I switched to Chrome.
