No One Beats On Microsoft Like the Woz
If you had a Mac 16 years ago and ran Internet Explorer on it, you probably crashed a lot. Of course, if you had a PC 16 years ago and ran Internet Explorer, you probably crashed a lot too, but a Mac crashing that much was unusual.
Some blamed MacOS. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak blamed Microsoft, is still irritated, and let it all fly out recently in a speech to mates in Australia, by crikey!
Woz himself found a bug in IE that made it crash pretty much constantly on the Mac. Here's how Australian news.com.au covered it:
"Everyone who ran Internet Explorer...would have several crashes every day," he said. "Move something into folder, it would crash, and you'd have to restart. Type something, crash, restart. Everyone thought it was the OS [Apple's operating system]. I guess it kind of was because it was allowing all this to happen. But in reality it was Microsoft Internet Explorer."
The Australian news site also quotes Woz from an earlier interview saying he would invest in Facebook. I'm thinking Steve might want to walk that one back!
Did you use IE on a Mac or PC in 1996? How did it work? Let us all know by writing [email protected].
Posted by Doug Barney on 05/21/2012 at 1:19 PM