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Not to mention that MS were actually pretty late to the party. They didn't put any chips down on the growth of the web until win98, which could already be marke

• quanticle 5y ago
  Internet Explorer was first released on August 16, 1995 [1] for as part of the Microsoft Plus! pack for Windows 95. That said, IE 1 and 2 were pretty paltry efforts and Microsoft's attack against Netscape didn't really get going until IE 3, which came out in '96 [2]. As I understand it, this was also the first release of Internet Explorer that was packaged with the operating system, as it was shipped with the Windows 95 OSR2 service pack. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_3
• agloeregrets 5y ago
  You are correct. Their initial attempts were messy then too. By time the iMac G3 came around in late '98 the web was the #1 reason people were buying computers and Apple was marketing on how much easier their product was to setup for the web. Microsoft was truly remarkably bad at winning the race so they went off trying to shoehorn IE on Mac, which was a winning bet when the iMac became the #1 selling machine.
• mixmastamyk 5y ago
  Around that time Gates made a speech that they were turning the company around to focus on the Internet. Unsaid was that they were quite late to the party. Before that you had to install TCP/IP separately on any non-Unix boxes. Personally I had been using the net for years at that point.
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