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...both the next generation of industry-standard PCs and Microsoft's effort to do to Java and Sun's Solaris operating system what it did to Navigator with Explorer. In fact, McNealy's primary motive for supporting the Netscape buyout may be the prospect of saving the Netscape browser. One of Microsoft's big advantages is its ability to integrate its Windows and browser software, offering customers a soup-to-nuts package deal. With AOL on his side, McNealy can offer a similar deal--as long as Case decides that a healthy Navigator is more important to him than keeping...
...sprawling, vertically integrated e-commerce company, nasty intramural conflicts are inevitable. When Jeff Bezos upgrades Amazon.com's server software, for instance, will he buy it from AOL, which is the host for arch-competitor Barnes & Noble? Will the Internet service providers who compete with AOL choose Navigator as their browser, and thus enrich their fiercest rival? How will McNealy feel when AOL creates enterprise tools for NT as well as Sun's Solaris...
...Internet browser known as Netscape Navigator 1.0 was launched, and the world--or at least the World Wide Web--changed with the click of a mouse. Within four months 75% of all Net users were peering at the Web through the window of the Netscape browser. Netscape's co-founder Marc Andreessen and his band of brainy programmers grabbed the world's fastest-growing market despite an entrenched competitor: NSCA Mosaic, the breakthrough browser Andreessen himself had helped write as a student at the University of Illinois...
Netscape's exploding popularity was almost unimaginable. Suddenly, www.website addresses were everywhere--on billboards, buses, blimps. How do you surf the Net? With a browser! With Netscape! "We were the ones who put the Internet in people's homes," says Jamie Zawinski, Netscape employee No. 20. Zawinski is typical of the kind of person who gravitated to Netscape in those early years. When he applied to Andreessen for a job, his resume listed his career objective as "To improve people's lives through software...
...lead when you can follow? Microsoft's first browser, Internet Explorer 1.0, was licensed from a company called Spyglass. It was an afterthought, available off the shelf as part of a $45 CD-ROM crammed with random tidbits, software antipasto, odds and ends you could live without--one of which was Explorer. Today Microsoft is the world's most powerful supplier of Web browsers, and Gates really has it made. The U.S. Justice Department is suing Microsoft for throwing its weight around illegally, hitting companies like Netscape below the belt. The trial is under way. Whoever wins, Gates will still...