Word: ies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the release of Opera 3.1 for Windows 3.x and Windows 95, however, the program has emerged as a serious technical competitor, if not a market threat, to Netscape and IE. Opera's advantage is that it is not based on the old Mosaic technology found in both of the "big two" browsers. Instead, its developers coded it from the ground up as a new product, avoiding the inefficiencies of legacy code and slow library files...
Netscape's popularity among users won't mean much if MIS staffers can put an integrated, easily set-up software bundle which includes Windows, Office and IE on all computers...
Even this move, however, seems to me to be too little, too late for N e t s c a p e . Microsoft has a second advantage over its competitors: IE is well-integrated into both Windows and its flagship Office product...
Netscape may be great by itself, but IE's hooks into Word and Excel let businesses integrate documents with the Web with relative ease. Look for cross-product links to be the real "killer application" in the browser market...
Whether you like Microsoft or hate it, it may be time to take a look at IE. Unless Justice moves fast, Netscape's days look numbered from this...