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Netscape died because browser became a utility in the OS.
by panick21_ 3y ago
Netscape died because browser became a utility in the OS.
- purerandomness 3y agoIt's not that simple. Netscape died because Microsoft bundled their browser with the operating system and made it free for commercial use, what essentially led to the huge antitrust case. Only after that did browsers become utilities in the OS, with open source engines like Konqueror's KHTML (which later became WebKit, which later became Blink) and Netscape/Mozilla's Gecko
- panick21_ 3y agoMicrosoft was the overwhelming majority of all installations. So effectively, once Microsoft added it, it was a utility. I'm well aware of that history.