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To add to this, bundling IE with Windows effectively killed the browser market. Netscape anyone? Microsoft was even subject to an anti-trust case centered aro
by gshulegaard 6y ago
To add to this, bundling IE with Windows effectively killed the browser market. Netscape anyone? Microsoft was even subject to an anti-trust case centered around their IE handling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- tomc1985 6y agoDominated, maybe. But definitely not killed. There was never just one contender for the crown. IE vs Netscape, then IE vs. Firefox nee Firebird nee Phoenix, then IE vs Firefox vs Chrome, and now Firefox vs Chrome
- bawolff 6y agoThere's a bit of a gap between when netscape was relavent and when firefox/firebird/phoneix was. Yes there were other browsers, and yes there existed people who used them, but it was very small