I never understood why people moved away from Netscape.
I never understood why people moved away from Netscape
Cuz AOL bought IT
It was an evolutionary process, largely caused by the blackmailing of Windows license holders, to pre install all MS products, like MS Office and IE. It's called bundling. In the days of the IBM monopoly it was considered illegal, but MS used it to drive Borland and Netscape, and others off the market. Neophytes began using IE instead of Netscape and Office because it came with the box and they didn't know any better. Other competitors were swallowed up by acquisition and just disappered. Sun fought back when JAVA licensing agreements were violated. MS has been a bad actor from the very beginning of personal computer technology development.
One other thing, MS never improved DOS until DR DOS became available, a far more utilitarian system, at which time they began to improve the DOS product.
I have never used IE, never will....never used MS Office..never will...always been Netscape, Corel(Wordperfect ,Borland) user.
..ben there, done that.
IE blows, so I've avoided it. But I dumped Netscape 7 for Firefox .9x for a simple reason: bloat.
I got sick of every Netscape release being a gigantic melange of Composer and lots of other crap I didn't want, all wrapped up in a 25Mb download. I just wanted a browser, and that was no longer possible with Netscape.
Plus, as somebody else said, once AOHell took over Netscape, I was itching to punch that big red Eject button. Once Firefox became stable, I punched it with relish. Mustard, too.
Very, very happy with Firefox plus Adblock; can't believe IE still has 10%, much less 90%. Firefox can fix that, too.