Word: browsers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department made headway in its long-delayed antitrust investigation into the Redmond, Wash. company, accusing Microsoft of using Internet Explorer to destroy Netscape Corp. and win a monopoly in the Internet browser market...
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...
...real battleground, of course, is not Windows 95 but Windows 98, the next incarnation of Microsoft's cash cow, into which its Web browser is even more tightly knit. The implications of the shots fired last week are clear: selling two versions of Win 98, one browser-enabled, the other crippled, won't satisfy anyone...