I didn’t notice your edit earlier. The issue with IE, besides the “don’t install Netscape” contracts, was that they undercut Netscape’s price by charging $0 wh

I didn’t notice your edit earlier. The issue with IE, besides the “don’t install Netscape” contracts, was that they undercut Netscape’s price by charging $0 which is impossible to compete with. Essentially dumping. I don’t think it being default was also an issue in the US case, but the 90s was a long time ago. You’re 100% right about the power of defaults. That was a big issue in the EU which is why MS had to include the first-run browser picker. But I’m not in the EU and didn’t follow that case so unfortunately that tiny bit is all I know there.