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At the time, OSes were paid software. Microsoft deliberately gave away their (vendor-locked) web browser at a loss to drive the other web browsers out of busine

At the time, OSes were paid software. Microsoft deliberately gave away their (vendor-locked) web browser at a loss to drive the other web browsers out of business (i.e. dumping), in order to lock web development into Windows. Although to be fair, they cheated the original developers of IE out of their money, too, by promising them a cut of the sales on IE (which they had absolutely no intention of delivering, seeing as they planned to give it away for free), so it wasn't quite "at a loss".

thaumasiotes 11y ago
> Microsoft deliberately gave away their (vendor-locked) web browser at a loss to drive the other web browsers out of business (i.e. dumping) This is kind of a weird claim. They gave Notepad and Solitaire away too. But they weren't giving any of that away at a loss; the "at a loss" concept doesn't even apply to software sales.