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Why do so many web developers hate Microsoft?

19th January 2011

My answer to Why do so many web developers hate Microsoft? on Quora

It’s because by far the least enjoyable part of web development is dealing with bugs in IE.

Posted 19th January 2011 at 1:31 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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