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<World-Wide Web> (IE, MSIE)
Microsoft's free
World-Wide Web
browser for
Microsoft Windows,
Windows 95,
Windows NT,
and Macintosh. Internet
Explorer is the main rival to
Netscape
Navigator (which runs on many more
platforms). Both
support the same core features and offer incompatible extensions.
Microsoft combined later versions of IE with their
file system
browser, "Explorer" and bundled it with
Windows 95 in an
attempt to use their dominance of the
desktop
operating system
market to force users to abandon Netscape's browser, which they perceived as a potential
threat. This, and other dubious business moves, became the subject of a US Department of
Justice antitrust trial in late 1998/early 1999.
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