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.
(https://microsoft.com/ie/).
(1999-01-31)