The lower court concluded that Microsoft's ruthless competition with software companies -- like Netscape Communications with its successful Internet browser, Navigator -- was anticompetitive because it tried to leverage one monopoly (Windows) to establish another (in, say, browsers).
"Microsoft -- from Bill Gates on down -- quickly realized that Netscape's Internet browser, Navigator, held a real threat to Microsoft's Windows monopoly," Mr. Klein said at the news conference announcing the lawsuits.
Find information about your Default Navigator "Internet Explorer" in the "Internet Settings" tab.
Netscape, the creator of the Navigator Internet browser, has demonstrated the power of the Net as a distribution system for small companies, by scattering 50m copies across the ether.On the other hand, the PC has the edge over the NC in terms of both technology and cost, and Microsoft is investing billions of dollars into making Windows more Internet-friendly.
Navigator: Internet browser from the Netscape Communications Corporation.
Fortune, for example, wrote that version 4.0 of Internet Explorer "beats Navigator hands down".
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Whether the bogeyman is Apple's graphical user interface, Novell's Netware network operating system, or the Netscape Navigator Internet browser, Microsoft seems to enjoy meeting each challenge with a huge technical change of direction.
There are even shoutouts to Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Geocities.
