Crame francois

Embed Size (px)

Citation preview

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