I was there live during those days. I lived it. IE was never really superior, I hated it in its early forms. Always used netscape. Back then US Robtics Modems were king and cable was just a pipe dream. Also Hard Drive space was gold same with RAM (megabytes then not Gigs)
Microsoft did a hostile takeover by pre-installing IE on windows, back then they took up expensive hard drive space and you could not UNINSTALL IE.
They went to court over it. They said it was part of the OS and had to be included . This forced everyone (With limited hard drive space) to have TWO large apps on their systems. It seems funny now but back then I picked and choose what bloatware was on my system. New users or computer owners would get IE built in so many never bothered to look for netscape or even know it even existed. MS left not easy way to remove IE (to free up HD space) for Netscape in court they claimed you could not do it (They were proven wrong but it was too late by then)
This tactic is one of the big factors that broke Netscape. I really did not care for Gates tactics back then or now.
Microsoft did a hostile takeover by pre-installing IE on windows, back then they took up expensive hard drive space and you could not UNINSTALL IE.
They went to court over it. They said it was part of the OS and had to be included . This forced everyone (With limited hard drive space) to have TWO large apps on their systems. It seems funny now but back then I picked and choose what bloatware was on my system. New users or computer owners would get IE built in so many never bothered to look for netscape or even know it even existed. MS left not easy way to remove IE (to free up HD space) for Netscape in court they claimed you could not do it (They were proven wrong but it was too late by then)
This tactic is one of the big factors that broke Netscape. I really did not care for Gates tactics back then or now.