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Netscape refused the proposition. Microsoft released version 1.0 of Internet Explorer as a part of the Windows 95 Plus Pack add-on. According to former Spyglass developer Eric Sink, Internet Explorer was based not on NCSA Mosaic as commonly believed, but on a version of Mosaic developed at Spyglass [33] (which itself was based upon NCSA Mosaic).
Netscape, Gates demanded, was a company that Microsoft would need to “match and beat.” Bolstered by support from the very top of their company, a few Microsoft engineers got together to start working on a new browser.
Netscape Navigator was the most widely used web browser and Microsoft had licensed Mosaic to create Internet Explorer 1.0, [10] [11] which had released with Microsoft Windows 95 Plus! on August 24, 1995.
Jan 30, 2023 · Navigator was briefly the dominant internet browser. Netscape's IPO in 1995 was a seminal event of the internet boom years. Microsoft launched its first version of Internet Explorer the same year.
Jan 27, 2015 · In 1995, no entity better represented the panache and wealth-making potential associated with the Internet than Netscape Communications Corporation, a startup in California’s Silicon Valley...
Aug 7, 2015 · Netscape thought it could supplant Microsoft’s Windows platform. But in reality, it took 15 years, and the rise of mobile to really do that. They simply shouldn’t have bothered.
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Apr 4, 2019 · The fact that Microsoft was gunning for Netscape was no secret. A now- infamous internal memo from May 1995 highlights Gates’ mission to dethrone Netscape as the web’s de facto browser of...
