It was the deal Gates had to make, coming at the height of the Netscape browser challenge.
Rockmelt has been closely watched partly because it is backed by Marc Andreessen, who created the Netscape browser.
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AOL, also a 5% owner, will infuse Net2Phone into the next versions of its Netscape browser and ICQ messaging.
And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.
Police superintendent Keiji Goto logs onto his Toshiba laptop, opens his Netscape Internet browser and moves his mouse to the Yahoo!
It was only ten years ago that the Netscape Web browser appeared.
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Justice Department lawyers and 19 states brought the antitrust case in May 1998, charging that Microsoft used illegal, anti-competitive practices in bundling its Internet Explorer browser with Windows--pushing Netscape from the browser market.
When the Justice Department (and later the courts) declared, in 1998, that Microsoft was guilty of monopolistic practices for bundling a free Internet Explorer with its operating system, in order to cripple a rival browser from Netscape, Mossberg wrote that a free browser better served consumers.
Microsoft crushed upstart browser company Netscape in the late 1990s by building a free Web browser into its ubiquitous operating system.
Winifred Mitchell Baker has all the scars of the netscape-microsoft browser war of the late 1990s.
It "integrates" new pro-Microsoft, anticompetitive (and antiuser) features the way previous versions "integrated" a Netscape-slaying browser.
It is also worth asking why Netscape, whose browser has the highest market share, should get special treatment.
At the same time Microsoft has been whipping Netscape in the browser wars.
People end up on Netscape's site because it is the default home page for Netscape's browser, which still edges out Microsoft's offering, Internet Explorer, in popularity.
On November 1st an alliance including Google, the most popular web-search engine, and several other firms announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape's browser made the web.
The Department of Justice has not tried to stop Microsoft pitting its Internet Explorer browser against Netscape's Navigator.
Explorer went on to eclipse Netscape as the dominant browser software on the PC and on the Mac.
Netscape is enhancing its browser to serve as a platform to run applications.
He rejects comparisons to failed browser maker Netscape, and suggestions that Real could run out of time and money before the trial is over.
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark founded Netscape to commercialize the browser.
AOL's flair for understanding the needs of the mass market and the size of its subscriber base will combine with Netscape's Internet browser and electronic-commerce software.
Institutional Shareholder Services also is recommending HP shareholders vote against the re-election of Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist best known as the co-founder of Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications.
At a meeting with Netscape in May 1995, he alleges that Microsoft proposed that it would supply the browser for Windows, while Netscape could have all the non-Windows operating systems.
But with Microsoft's aggressive targeting of the browser market, Netscape's posture is rapidly changing.
At the same time, he lobbied antitrust regulators against Microsoft's bundling plans and courted Microsoft's bitter rival in the Web-browser market, Netscape.
But that no longer matters much: the browser war against Netscape that started the current fuss has in effect been won by Microsoft.
By far the greatest threat came from Netscape's Navigator web browser.
That could prove just as disastrous for IBM and Dragon Systems' competing voice-recognition software as the decision to bundle the Explorer Web browser was for Netscape.
This is why, last May, it settled a suit by Time Warner, which owns the remains of Netscape, a web-browser firm that Microsoft bulldozed in the 1990s.
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