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Posted by: Roger Pratt (Thursday 19 May 2005, 6:41 PM)

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"The Netscape browser was once ubiquitous, but it was marginalised after Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer in the mid-1990s." -- This is a bizarre rewriting of history. Microsoft's "free" bundling of IE with its OS forced Netscape to also give its own browser away for free (IE 4 was the first competent version). After that AOL bought the Netscape company and itself marginalized Navigator (by first being very slow to undate, and then bringing out a seriously flawed browser). Remember Microsoft, the monopoly, in the courtroom ...

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