I’ve posted a number of times on what I consider are unfair business practices of Microsoft and how it destroyed Netscape. I recently found an old Time magazine article about this, and thought I’d share it.

This article discusses how Microsoft was able to quickly disable Netscape and place Internet Explorer as the defacto Internet Browser. Microsoft’s dominance shows the true power that they have.

I remember back then everyone complaining about how buggie IE was. Whenever I turned someone on to Netscape Navigator they raved about it. However, I’m only 1 person. For the millions of people who were just learning about the Internet and logging on for the first time that little logo that said “The Internet” was where they went. This was usually right next the “Inbox” icon that loaded Microsoft’s email program. (Sorry, I don’t remember if it was called Outlook at the time or not.)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985115-1,00.html

You can read the article “Winner Takes All” here.

You can read my other thoughts on this subject:

http://www.vi411.org/2006/07/11/microsoft-compete-with-vmware-ha.html

http://www.vi411.org/2006/07/25/micro-source-vs-open-source.html

http://www.vi411.org/2006/09/19/virtually-unstoppable.html