It seems Microsoft got so comfortable with its monopoly that it let the quality of its product slide, just as other competitors were entering the battlefield.Įven just considering its cosmetic interface (what you see and interact with when you visit a website), Explorer could not give users the authentic experience of modern websites. Despite this, it lost consumers’ trust due to Explorer’s “legacy architecture” which involved poor design and slowness. It added different functionality and components with each release. Microsoft has released 11 versions of Explorer (with many minor revisions along the way). Still, even though a number of other browsers were around (including Netscape Navigator, which pre-dated Explorer), Explorer remained the default choice for millions of people up until around 2002, when Firefox was launched. But this came at a cost, and Microsoft eventually faced multiple antitrust investigations exploring its monopoly on the browser market. Providing Explorer as its default browser meant a large proportion of Windows’s global user base would not experience an alternative. After all, it was only in 1993 that Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web, released the first public web browser (aptly called WorldWideWeb). To its credit, Explorer introduced many Windows users to the joys of the internet for the first time.

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