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Even as a fan of Microsoft, rephrasing that as "the entirely legal thing they did that drove a competitor out of business" doesn't make me feel better about the
by dwattttt 3y ago
Even as a fan of Microsoft, rephrasing that as "the entirely legal thing they did that drove a competitor out of business" doesn't make me feel better about the outcome.
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- scarface_74 3y agoIsn’t the simple explanation that Navigator sucked and people decided not to go out of their way to download it? Navigator did suck and was crash prone and could bring down the entire operating system on weaker operating systems like the Mac. We have two instances where people did in fact choose to go out of their way to download better browsers then the default - first Firefox and then Chrome.
- icedchai 3y agoIt's been so long, I think people may have forgotten just how unstable Netscape actually was. 4.x was also incredibly bloated for the time. At one company, I remember a guy rebooting his Mac daily because NS would crash it. In the late 90's, I also briefly worked at another company with tons of ex-Netscape people. Even they preferred IE.