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Broadcom 11 2,271,800 Excite 10 798,276 Earthlink 12 691,459 @Home 11 542,998 CNET 6 508,928 Amazon 9 446,998 Spyglass...
...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...
Perhaps if Netscape had agreed to license its code, the company would be in better shape today. But probably not. Microsoft ended up doing the deal with an outfit called Spyglass, whose code became the core of Internet Explorer. Spyglass has since left the PC browser business and is selling software for hand held devices and TV set-top boxes. It posted a $9.7 million loss last year. It was doomed...
...solution to this discord on the Net comes from an appropriately-named source: Opera. Until recently, Opera was just one of many "alternative" browsers. Like offerings from the NCSA and Spyglass, it was seen as an also-ran that couldn't handle the Web as well as the big boys could. Frequently, these off-market browsers could not properly handle the more complicated HTML pages found on major commercial Web sites...
...buzz around Netscape portrayed the company as a real winner. The company enjoyed a 90 percent share of the Web browser market at one time. Competitors like spyglass and Microsoft acknowledged that Netscape had a one-to-two-year research and development lead--a massive advantage in the Internet industry...