You keep using that word. But I don't it means what you think it means. Netscape could compete with IE. Netscape couldn't compete with the entire MS empire bei

You keep using that word. But I don't it means what you think it means. Netscape could compete with IE. Netscape couldn't compete with the entire MS empire being dedicated to destroying them. MS played hardball and were willing to do anything to gain nearly complete dominance in the market. A lot of their strategy was clearly anti-competitive and anti-consumer. It's not even a debate. See U.S. v Microsoft. Netscape couldn't compete with that sort of scorched earth strategy. And it took Google and Mozilla years to make a dent in that and MS had to help by letting their market dominance stagnate for over half a decade and causing endless irritation for a generation of developers who are always going to treat an MS browser as a second class citizen. So yeah, great for MS, they beat Netscape. But they couldn't beat Google or Mozilla and that's the most recent battle, so the one that actually matters.