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Internet Explorer's market share was closely related to Microsoft Windows's market share as it was its default web browser. After the integration of Internet Explorer 2.0 with Windows 95 in 1996, and especially after version 4.0's release in 1997, adoption skyrocketed from below 10% in 1996 [41] to about 40% in 1998 and over 80% in 2000.
IE3 was the first incarnation of Explorer to seriously compete with Netscape Navigator, which until that point had been the most popular browser. During Reardon's tenure, Internet Explorer surpassed Netscape Navigator as the most-used web browser in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in what came to be known as the First Browser War.
Internet Explorer [a] (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer [b] and Windows Internet Explorer, [c] commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
Internet Explorer 8 was released on 19 March 2009, for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. [42] Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11 were later released, and version 11 is included in Windows 10 , but Microsoft Edge became the default browser there.
[48] [49] He advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right: "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights." [50] Berners-Lee participated in an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He and 20 ...
Spyglass' Mosaic code became the basis for Internet Explorer, which was released as an add-on to Windows 95 in the Microsoft Plus! software package. [7] Microsoft and Spyglass reached an updated agreement in 1997, following a dispute over Microsoft only paying the minimum amount required for each quarterly royalty. [10]