At the time Netscape's revenue came almost largely from corporate customers who paid for Netscape's client and server software products. Microsoft offered to g

At the time Netscape's revenue came almost largely from corporate customers who paid for Netscape's client and server software products. Microsoft offered to give these companies a discount on their Windows licenses if they agreed to cut ties with Netscape, thereby severely limiting Netscape's revenue. Shortly thereafter the Netscape client software was the spun off to mozilla.org, and the rest of the company was sold to AOL.