The battle of IE : what happened to Internet Explorer
Crame Francois
Summary
Introduction
Biggest opportunity of the century
Business
Creation of Internet Explorer
Monopoly of Internet Explorer
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
What the Web should be
Commercial ideology
Conclusion
Introduction
Personal computer
The Web
The 90's
Biggest opportunity of the century
Microsoft
Apple
Business
Internet administration
Business was banned
1994
Web traffic increased
Creation of Internet Explorer
Graphical web browser
Developed by Microsoft
Windows 95
Most widely used
Mosaic (web browser)
royalties to Spyglass Inc
Monopoly of Internet Explorer
Beat all competition
Pre-installed
Netscape
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
1998
United States Department of Justice
Intel
Browser war (Opera and Netscape)
First judgment: Split
Appeal: adopt non-Microsoft software
What the Web should be
2 views
Hippie culture from the 70's
Free
Corporate view
Money
Commercial ideology
Dot-com companies
Conclusion
2008
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