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"Microsoft won that one, despite loosing." (sic) please explain?
by adrianscott 14y ago
"Microsoft won that one, despite loosing." (sic)
please explain?
- cedmart 14y agoI read it as: "By bundling IE with Windows, abusing (illegal) the Windows monopoly (legal) MS managed to basically kill Netscape... Despite losing the legal battle and being --forever-- regarded as a company that did abuse its monopoly to drive out a competitor". It's not about IE vs Chrome, it's not about IE vs Safari. It's not about whatever-MS-mobile-OS vs Android vs iOS. It's about IE vs Netscape and MS (illegally) "winning" that war despite losing in court.
- e12e 14y agoYes, that sums up what I meant. Also, if you look at browser stats even today, arguably IE has an "unfair" share of the market -- but such things are hard to be certain of ("What is a 'fair' market share for the now much, much improved IE browser?"). The biggest thing MS did was probably to give away the browser for free, subsidizing the development of the browser, with profits from windows licences. That dumping effort effectively killed the market for (paid for) browsers -- eventually even Opera gave up charging end users for its browser.