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...should a corporation shell out $50 Per Computer for a copy of Netscape when IE comes preloaded on the PCs they purchase...
Opinions of propriety and monopoly aside, it's plainly clear that, by giving away its own Internet Explorer (IE) product, Microsoft created a great answer to Netscape's Navigator. IE is no longer a long-shot competitor to Navigator; it is the only real rival, and what's more, it's about to overtake Netscape's offering...
...Tuesday morning Dell, Compaq and NEC Packard Bell followed suit, releasing statements saying their Windows 95 licensing agreements would not prevent them from packaging alternative browsers to IE on their computers...
...site, like many of the other big ones out there, wasn't exactly prepared for the IE 4-spurred traffic boost. Those Microsoft robots were downloading so much stuff for so many users that our computers ended up working overtime. It was like one of those hamburger places on the interstate when a caravan of tour buses pulls up in the middle of the night. Luckily, in the digital age, we never run out of fries...
...optimistic. ("Cha-ching!" was how a pal at HotWired put it.) The more traffic to your site, you see, the more you can charge advertisers, theoretically. That may sound venal, but it's been lean out here. A lot of Websites have died for lack of revenue. Thanks to IE 4, traffic is way up, in some cases more than 25%. Within two weeks, visits at TIME Daily doubled, to 500,000 page views a week. We still have to convince advertisers that people--and not just robots--are looking at their ads. But that will be easy. Right, Bill...