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> Microsoft had 90% of the desktop OS marketplace As mentioned elsewhere, they didn’t get to 90% by selling to a free market. They demanded exclusivity across
by jonhohle 3y ago
> Microsoft had 90% of the desktop OS marketplace
As mentioned elsewhere, they didn’t get to 90% by selling to a free market. They demanded exclusivity across the entire PC market. They didn’t just let IE stagnate. They told Mosaic they would license their renderer for a percentage of sales and then gave IE away for free.
It would be like Apple saying if you wrote an iOS app you couldn’t write an app for any other platform.