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>I don't believe MS built a superior product. Whether you do or don't believe it, it's whether they did, and yes they did. Users overwhelmingly chose to not pu
by ksk 11y ago
>I don't believe MS built a superior product.
Whether you do or don't believe it, it's whether they did, and yes they did. Users overwhelmingly chose to not purchase Netscape products which killed their revenue and shut down the company. The competition was free vs paid, and as often happens, paid will fail. If it was free vs free, maybe Netscape would have had a shot.
- mcknz 11y agoMicrosoft had the luxury of offering it for free because of revenue from Windows and Office. I could agree that the browsers were at least comparable, until Netscape disappeared and MS had little incentive to improve IE. Which led to feature stagnation until the Firefox rose from the ashes...