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> this company Netscape had been selling its Navigator browser (to businesses; > it was free for personal use), and then Microsoft entered the market with i
by thought_alarm 5y ago
> this company Netscape had been selling its Navigator browser (to businesses;
> it was free for personal use), and then Microsoft entered the market with its
> completely free Internet Explorer browser, and then Microsoft had the
> audacity to bundle IE with Windows. Can you imagine?
I believe the larger problem was that Microsoft offered companies and OEMs discounts on their Windows license fees if they agreed to stop purchasing any Netscape software, client and server, thereby collapsing Netscape's revenue from both ends.
- conception 5y agoBeOS has entered the chat.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoCould you expand on this for someone unfamiliar with the reference you're making?
- marcosdumay 5y agoBasically, MS offered discounts for anybody that wouldn't sell alternative OSes too. That includes OS2 (well I imagine it as aimed at it, and Be was unintentional), that IBM developed in a partnership with MS. After they settled that case, they stopped offering discount, instead they just billed Windows copies by computer sold, independently of the OS.