And funded the SCO Group v. The World lawsuit. On the other hand, in the early days IE beat Netscape fair and square in the technical domain, by engineering a

And funded the SCO Group v. The World lawsuit. On the other hand, in the early days IE beat Netscape fair and square in the technical domain, by engineering a vastly better browser, I think it was faster, and it was definitely a lot more stable. And let's not forget how they got AJAX started. One of the "secrets" of Microsoft's success in those days was their ability to consistently write software that basically worked, something that allowed the dominance of their Office suite when all their competitors but WordPerfect completely failed to get a working Windows version of their software, and WordPerfect didn't crash but had intolerable bugs, like your figures and tables repeatedly moving themselves to the bottom of your document (as reported by a lawyer co-worker and friend who had been a big fan of it on MS-DOS).