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Jan 3, 2002 · AOL was leery of the potential relationship, although it too hoped that a Netscape partnership might defeat Microsoft, the evidence said.
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- Take Yes For An Answer
By the beginning of 1996, Netscape Communications was on a roll. Founded in April 1994 with a management team led by Jim Clark (former chairman of Silicon Graphics), Marc Andreessen (the programmer behind Mosaic, an early Web browser), and Jim Barksdale (former CEO of McCaw Cellular), Netscape owned the dominant Web browser on the market. The Navig...
Although Navigator had the inside track to AOL, Microsoft wasn’t about to give up without a fight. In November 1995, Bill Gates pitched Explorer to Steve Case in a meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters, but Case rebuffed him. Not long thereafter, Gates chose the potent symbolism of Pearl Harbor Day to declare that Microsoft was “hard-core about the I...
To explore the implications of the negotiations that led to this abrupt reversal of fortune, I will look first at the four basic negotiation elements: the parties, their interests, their no-deal alternatives and the opportunities for what I call “dealcrafting” (structuring agreements to create value). Examined in isolation, each yields insight; tak...
In January 1996, Netscape arguably could have blocked Microsoft for what might have been a long time, if not permanently, in the standards game simply by saying yes to an eager AOL in return for an airtight exclusive deal .17 It failed to do so — not once, but twice. Four months after the Microsoft-AOL deal, a technicality apparently reopened the d...
- James K. Sebenius
Nov 24, 2023 · In 2003 Microsoft settled a monopoly lawsuit with AOL (then merged with Time Warner) for $750 million over the loss of value of Netscape.
Jul 4, 2001 · Most agree the 1996 Microsoft-AOL partnership was a win-win for the two companies. In 1996, AOL claimed nearly 7 million members, compared to Microsoft Network’s 1.5 million. Meanwhile, Netscape claimed more than two-thirds of the browser market.