socialcarpet
Banned
Basically, all consumers are pawns in Apple's and Google's fight for dominance over the mobile web, and Microsoft's hope of preventing that.
Put yourself in Microsoft's position. Would you allow Safari and/or Chrome on WP8?
Microsoft is in the same battle over the mobile web, they just brought a knife to a gun fight and got there a little late.
Anyone who thinks Microsoft or Google or Apple or any corporation is a champion of the everyman and looking for for the little guy is clueless. All these companies care about is their own profits and control over you and your information so they can make more money.
That is the real reason Microsoft wants to push IE and Bing on us like this, which I'd kind of be OK with if both of those products didn't offer a sub-par experience compared to their closest competitors.
Websites are being designed for WebKit. That is the reality. Does anyone really believe that if we all pray hard enough they are magically all going to start working extra hard to make sure their websites work on the Trident browser that 1% of the smartphone market uses?
It's not going to happen. Even if WP and Win RT marketshare triple tomorrow, there is still little reason for them to bother making sure their drop down menus work right on our phones.
So what can Microsoft do? They can decide they care more about the end user experience and get out of the way so we can have non-IE browsers, or they can hang on stubbornly trying to make IE stick against all odds.
I'm not sure how it will all play out. I don't have too much invested in it because 90% of the websites I go to work fine on IE anyway. But those 10% are kind of annoying and Bing is still mediocre no matter what brmiller1976 or any of the rest of you say.