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		jan_g on Sept 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;d... >>Apple has a strong incentive to make sure that people using OSX have a great experience. To make sure that OSX can browse the web well they need to make sure that Safari is viewed as a mainstream browser, and that it's easy for developers to test websites on it without having to go buy a Mac. >>So by releasing it on Windows they can (a) gain marketshare so it's taken more seriously, and (b) make sure developers who use Windows will test with it. Exactly, and in my opinion, Microsoft should follow this logic for the same reasons.

confuzatron on Sept 30, 2010 [–]

Except the argument is not applicable to MS due to their large userbase.

No-one is going to say "I'm not setting up a Windows machine just to test a niche browser like IE. Screw that".

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