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Microsoft Anti-Trust Retrospective

Posted by: Joe Walker on 02/05/2008

It was about 5 years between Netscape 4 and Mozilla 1.0. In that time, they lost about 80% market share.

It was about 5 years between IE6 and IE7. In that time, they lost about 10% market share.

Just in case there was any doubt about the argument that Netscape killed themselves, clearly there were other forces at work. It wasn't just down to a much criticized rewrite decision. Perhaps a better remedy than trying to get Microsoft broken up, would have been to insist on the default installation of an alternate browser.

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About Joe Walker

Joe Walker is a developer and consultant working on advanced web development techniques like AJAX.

He recently developed Direct Web Remoting, (DWR) which has become the most popular Ajax toolkit for Java by making browser/server interaction intuitive for web developers. See http://www.directwebremoting.com

He currently works through his consultancy, Getahead (http://getahead.org/), which is supplying a growing number of customers with AJAX and advanced web solutions.

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