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Microsoft Paid $12m To Avert Opera Lawsuit
News While the Opera payment is relatively tiny, it underscores ongoing ripple effects in the browser market that stem from the overwhelming dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. IE's dominance has also created fallout for Web standards, because...
[May 24, 2004, 14:05]
Mozilla 1.0 Unleashed On Browser Market
News In an attempt to stem the increasing dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Mozilla designed Gecko -- the core browsing engine of Mozilla browsers -- to be used in third-party applications.
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
Windows XP Ties Messaging To .Net
News Second, and just as important, Microsoft's dominance on the desktop is being challenged by AOL Time Warner and Yahoo! I truly feel Microsoft is trying to ensure that they have a firm hold on their current dominance as it pertains to the PC market...
[October 11, 2001, 16:13]
Microsoft Retools MSN Explorer
News Microsoft said it will introduce a new version of MSN Explorer, its Web client software, in the latest attempt by software giant to unseat AOL Time Warner for new media dominance. MSN Explorer, which was launched in October, is software that...
[April 12, 2001, 15:30]
MSN Previews Next Net Service
News In its never-ending campaign for Internet dominance, Microsoft showed off a test version of its latest online service to take on industry rivals America Online and Yahoo! MSN 8 essentially weaves elements from its desktop software products, such as...
[July 17, 2002, 7:55]
DOJ Asks For $1m A Day Fine On Microsoft
News PC Week Online reported in August 1996 that several PC makers alleged that Microsoft had wielded its operating-system dominance unfairly in an attempt to push Internet Explorer to the top of the browser market.
[October 21, 1997, 9:30]
A Year Ago: DOJ Asks For $1m A Day Fine On Microsoft
News PC Week Online reported in August 1996 that several PC makers alleged that Microsoft had wielded its operating-system dominance unfairly in an attempt to push Internet Explorer to the top of the browser market.
[October 20, 1998, 6:29]
Opera Aims For Speed Over Substance
News Web browser dark horse Opera Software has released a stripped-down, rebuilt version of its browser software, in its latest bid to chip away at Microsoft's dominance. The company's browser, which it has long-claimed that it loads pages substantially...
[November 13, 2002, 11:09]
Opera Scales Download Record
News Opera Software said on Tuesday that its Web browser had been downloaded a record 10 million times already this year, showing growing signs of use despite Microsoft's continued dominance. The Norwegian company is the main independent commercial...
[August 6, 2003, 10:39]
Tech Industry Quiet Over Netscape Lawsuit
News In April 2000, he concluded that Microsoft was a monopoly that used anti-competitive means to maintain its dominance in Intel-based operating systems. In the mid-1990s, the Netscape browser had a leading position in the market but now is a distant...
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Firefox Hits 10-million Mark
News Firefox's percentage gain helped cut into Microsoft's dominance of the Web browser market, cutting its market share to less than 90 percent. Firefox, the open-source challenger to market heavyweight Internet Explorer, has surpassed 10 million...
[December 13, 2004, 7:45]
Mozilla Blocks Pop-ups, But Netscape Won't
News At the time, then-independent Netscape charged the open-source project with creating a compelling Web-browsing technology to compete with Microsoft's growing dominance with Internet Explorer. Netscape users around the world comprise less than 5...
[August 14, 2002, 15:33]
Microsoft Ties XP To The Web
News This is exactly like what Microsoft did in the past with the bundling, where they're leveraging what they have on the desktop into another market where they don't have dominance. Silver and Guernsey Research analyst Chris LeTocq said the strategy...
[June 7, 2001, 9:04]
Google Chrome Heats Up Browser Wars
News Firefox has been chipping away at IE's share for years, but IE has been able to maintain its dominance. Finally, although Chrome on first impressions is bad news for Firefox, there's a subtler reality at play: IE is the dominant browser, and the...
[September 3, 2008, 11:50]
Europe Should Accept US Settlement, Says Microsoft
News The European Commission, the EU's executive body, is specifically investigating complaints that Microsoft is using its dominance in the desktop operating system market to compel adoption of its server software.
[December 4, 2001, 12:34]
Firefox Bites Back
Leader IE has wasted six years of market dominance in stagnation while the world changed around it. Six years ago, Microsoft won the browser wars against Netscape -- the distant forefather of Firefox -- not because Internet Explorer was a better browser...
[September 21, 2004, 13:05]
Experts: Java Lawsuit Could Be Tough To Win
News Besides the US case settled in November by the Justice Department and nine of 18 states, the European Union is investigating whether Microsoft used its dominance in desktop operating systems to gain unfair advantage in the server-software market.
[March 11, 2002, 14:57]
Malware Authors Exploit Microsoft's Monthly Cycles
News The IFRAME vulnerability and the Bofra worm appeared in the week leading up to the final release of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, which is unaffected by the worm and seen as the biggest threat to Microsoft’s dominance of the browser market for many...
[November 10, 2004, 10:18]
A Year Ago : Microsoft On Trial: New 'Sabotage' Claims
News What's more, the Apple executive's testimony, released late Friday in the form of a 53-page document by the government as part of the proceedings in the Microsoft antitrust trial, included a bold prescription: Avadis "Avie" Tevanian Jr.the senior...
[November 1, 1999, 6:00]
Microsoft On Trial: New 'Sabotage' Claims
News What's more, the Apple executive's testimony, released late Friday in the form of a 53-page document by the government as part of the proceedings in the Microsoft antitrust trial, included a bold prescription: Avadis "Avie" Tevanian Jr.the senior...
[November 2, 1998, 14:01]
