McGovern: Handing over

McGovern: Handing over

By being insecure and buggy, MSIE had negative effects far beyond its userbase.

Insecure and buggy, yes, but more importantly it used a proprietary dialect of HTML, broke with standards and (through monopoly abuse) killed off competition through illegal means. This, too, had a huge impact beyond the userbase. It meant many websites broke on other browsers and were thus unusable on other systems.

This included sites that were "mandatory training", government websites, etc. In some places, this meant you couldn't get well-paid jobs or claim benefits except by using one specific browser on one specific operating system.