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At least Edge is consumer software; your boss can't shove it down your throat.

Oh man, you must be too young to remember when companies had intranet sites that only worked on IE6 long after it was supported. That was pure hell as a young IT support drone. Good god.

IE6 and a Java 5 web applet. Woo!

The Flash UI of VMware vSphere.

Why was everything Silverlight for a few months?

Web Applets were pretty cool in theory at least, but a disaster in practice.

Also never fails to amaze me that if Adobe hadn’t been so lazy with making Flash performant on Mac, Steve Jobs wouldn’t have delivered the death blow. ActionScript was not a bad language!

I am familiar with the "This site is best viewed on X" and Netscape vs IE era but I thankfully entered the workforce later.

My condolences to everyone who has to suffer stereotypical enterprise software.

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