Sure, Microsoft might be riding high these days on the back of generative AI, but it wasn't always so successful. Remember ...

If you’re old enough to have used NCSA Mosaic or any of the other early browsers, you probably welcomed the arrival of Netscape Navigator, and rued its decline in the face of Internet Explorer.

The case centered on whether Microsoft was abusing its position as a monopoly by packaging its Internet Explorer browser with ...

In 1995, that meant you were either looking at Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. The opening salvos of the browser wars saw some true innovations in the web standards that still ...

Headlines at the time hailed the move as a big moment in the ‘browser wars’ between Opera, AOL/Netscape, and Internet Explorer. “Today Opera’s status as just an alternative browser for the ...

This rapid sequence of announcements echoes the browser wars of the 1990s, when Netscape and Internet Explorer fought for dominance by offering free software to capture user loyalty early.

When I managed PCMag's Build Your Own Web Site feature in 1996, Internet Explorer matched Netscape in features, but was a distant second in usage. Most of what I wrote related to how it would be ...