>>And because they lost market share becaue web designers hated >>designing TWO versions of a page. > > I thought that Netscape lost market share because they released a grossly > buggy browser (I say this as a staunch netscape user) which forced people > away from using Netscape, combined with Micro$hit shipping IE with > Windows, and automatically installing it when installing Windows, and > putting a link directly onto the desktop which could not be removed by > normal methods of deleting stuff.
and threatened to destroy (by refusing to sell them windows) OEMs who wanted to remove IE and give customers Netscape if they wanted it. And many customers DID want Netscape, since it was the market leader back then. -- gav
