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Netscape built a fortune, at least in market value, by taking the roughedged Mosaic Web browser designed by the University of Illinois and crafting the Navigator browser. By 1995, almost everyone on the Web had a Netscape product on their computer...
Long-time Microsoft rivals saw the rise of the Internet and the browser as the perfect opportunity to defeat Gates's empire of Windows...
Netscape had a huge lead in product development; Microsoft would have been hard-pressed to sell copies of an inferior product while Netscape led the market. But this was Microsoft's ace in the hole: it didn't have to sell its browser...
Gates says the government is violating the spirit of innovation by questioning its business practices. He says that a 1990s operating system must, by definition, include a Web browser to be a viable product...
Perhaps it would be convenient to have a Web browser built into Windows. But remember that two decades ago, it was convenient to get local and long-distance phone service from one vendor--Ma Bellsystem. This meant absurdly high prices too since the phone company had no competition...