Netscape was the sizzle and you pay money to get a browser to surf internet.
Microsoft decided to package IE for free on Window.
Internet was wild west and mysterious. There's hardly any books on it and information wasn't traveling as fast for the masses to know much about internet.
But they do know there's this IE thingy that will give them internet.
IE destroyed netscape, very few people had a clue there was an alternative browser...
Hence this was deem as a monopoly.
Hell when I was a kid I didn't really know much other than netscape and all of a sudden IE. It didn't occur to me that there are choices but the fact that IE was a part of window and it just works out of the box. I moved to mozilla when IE was slowing down.
But the point was it was so integrated with window that it was apart of it, it felt natural as if the internet was apart of microsoft.
And in fact microsoft acted as a gate keeper of the internet for years that was their business goal. Their OS control stuff on the PC and that's how they made money. Which is why they lost to Google when they double down on their model. The way they acted and their many moves to monopolize it, one of which was IE.
Netscape was the sizzle and you pay money to get a browser to surf internet.
Microsoft decided to package IE for free on Window.
Internet was wild west and mysterious. There's hardly any books on it and information wasn't traveling as fast for the masses to know much about internet.
But they do know there's this IE thingy that will give them internet.
IE destroyed netscape, very few people had a clue there was an alternative browser...
Hence this was deem as a monopoly.
Hell when I was a kid I didn't really know much other than netscape and all of a sudden IE. It didn't occur to me that there are choices but the fact that IE was a part of window and it just works out of the box. I moved to mozilla when IE was slowing down.
But the point was it was so integrated with window that it was apart of it, it felt natural as if the internet was apart of microsoft.
And in fact microsoft acted as a gate keeper of the internet for years that was their business goal. Their OS control stuff on the PC and that's how they made money. Which is why they lost to Google when they double down on their model. The way they acted and their many moves to monopolize it, one of which was IE.