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What was actually an antitrust issue: leveraging a 98% market share as a cudgel to move into a new market by 1. Including a free competitor in a hot new market
by redwall_hp 5y ago
What was actually an antitrust issue: leveraging a 98% market share as a cudgel to move into a new market by
1. Including a free competitor in a hot new market
2. Threatening hardware OEMs with financial penalties (not getting OEM copies of Windows) if they continued the practice of bundling the primary player's product (Netscape)
Back then, Web browsers were something you went to a brick and mortar store and paid good money for a disk to get. They weren't just handed out for free online. Microsoft flattened the competition in a market they were not previously in by leveraging their dominance in another market.
- Lascaille 5y ago>Web browsers were something you went to a brick and mortar store and paid good money for a disk to get As a person who was on the internet since 1993, they were? Maybe if you wanted Netscape Gold with the editor, but I never paid for a browser and never remember any prompts urging me to do so or having to reinstall a shareware copy of anything.
- autoexec 5y ago> Back then, Web browsers were something you went to a brick and mortar store and paid good money for a disk to get. Who did that? You could just grab an installer for netscape over FTP, IE came on every windows system by default, and if you really wanted a CD or floppy with a browser on it, your ISP would send you one. AOL CDs were sent to every mailbox in the country repeatedly and totally unsolicited and those contained browser installers. Nobody I've ever known went running to the store to buy a web browser and I know people who paid for pkzip