And it came to pass that blackbox wrote:
> Is Windows designed for Explorer or Explorer designed for
> Windows? or, Windows is the Explorer?
>
First, Windows was "harvested" from Xerox, who actually invented
it, by Apple. Then MS took a shine to it, and borrowed it.
Then Netscape announced Navigator, the first commercial web
browser.
So MS bought up a browser called Interet Explorer, but sales
were bad because Navigator was better.
Then MS offered IE free with Windows 95, and figured out a way
to wind it up into the software so you couldn't uninstall it.
They sweetened the pot by putting certain "extras" on the IE
disks instead of the Windows disks. But the disks came seperate,
so the choice was still yours.
Then Netscape stopped charging for its browser, too.
Then MS decided why risk users not installing IE, and replaced
parts of the operating system with parts of IE, and Win98 was
born.
With each release, MS replaced more and more of the Operating
System with a Web Browser, and suddenly all the smart
programmers were getting rich selling anti-virus and system
security software.
And that's why Bundy drools a lot.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
"Flyman? Conman more like it." Clive Mitchell
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