Netscape’s runaway popularity compelled Microsoft to build Internet Explorer and bundle it with Windows, eventually prompting ...

It was proving to be well on its way to developing just as much support and capability as other competing browsers of the time, like Netscape Navigator. The release of Internet Explorer also ...

Initially a paid product, Netscape was forced to give Navigator away after Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer (IE) browser as a free program. Soon after, Microsoft integrated IE into the ...

About a month beforehand, Microsoft finally launched its first answer to Netscape, with Internet Explorer 1.0 browser in August 1995. However, it was pretty bare-bones in terms of features.

By 1995, however, Mosaic’s time was on the wane and Netscape was people’s browser of choice. Three years later, Internet Explorer had taken the lead – and seemed poised to hold it forever.