Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that cheap bandwidth and visual communities the size of shopping malls might fulfill: try-it-on Gaps; virtual town halls; online nightclubs with live video and sound. "I'm not sure that even the guys at E.C. know what the Palace's future is," says Foley. Like the Web browser before it, the Palace has a chance to become that rarest of online creations: a machine that grows of itself...
...that Microsoft systematically "set out to use its vast power as the producer of Windows to 'cut off Netscape's air supply.'" Netscape is a strong case study for the Justice Department because its alleged injuries are clear and dramatic. According to AdKnowledge, Netscape had almost 77% of the browser market in January 1997, compared to Microsoft's Internet Explorer's 20%. By August 1998, Microsoft had 49% to Netscape...
...heart of Barksdale's testimony was a June 21, 1995, meeting between Netscape and Microsoft to discuss the Internet browser market. It was at that meeting, Netscape says, that Microsoft crossed the line from aggressive competitor to rapacious monopolist. "It was like a visit by Don Corleone," Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen recalled later. "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." Barksdale charged in his testimony that Microsoft's goal at the meeting was to illegally divide the browser market, keeping the lion's share for itself. "I have never been...
Justice contends that it was Microsoft's aggressive use of its market power--not the quality of its browser--that accounts for Internet Explorer's rapid growth at Netscape's expense. To make the point, Justice unveiled a memo from Hewlett-Packard complaining that Microsoft had prohibited it from installing Netscape if it wanted to keep installing Windows on its computers. "We are very disappointed," an H-P manager wrote. "From a consumer perspective, it is hurting our industry. If we had another choice of another supplier, based on your actions here, we would take...
...headhunter called to see if he was interested in applying for a job as fourth man out at nearby Microsoft, he declined. And that's why, when Doerr called to see if he was interested in running a company that was building a piece of software called a browser that just might change the world--or at least the World Wide Web--he jumped...