Internet Explorer

  • Firefox -- the flag bearer of free software

    Mozilla's browser is taking market share away from Microsoft. Sometimes, slow and steady really does win the race.
  • Resistance really was futile

    Microsoft and AOL announce an unholy $750 million alliance. Where does that leave Mozilla, Netscape's open-source rebel child?
  • Mozilla rising

    Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows.
  • Microsoft should be punished

    The feds failed to order a breakup when it could have done some good. Now, based on the government's findings, Sun, Netscape and Be are suing -- with good reason.
  • Netscape's folly

    The loser in the browser wars has filed a private antitrust suit against Microsoft. But the company doesn't deserve to win.
  • Citizen Gates

    The media played the Microsoft trial as a judgment on the CEO's personality -- and there was no way he could win.
  • Mozilla dreams

    Can the open-source browser redeem Netscape's name and give Microsoft a run for its money?
  • Briefing for a descent into computer hell

    The chilling story of a deadline-addled writer's disintegration triggered by the seven words no keyboard jockey wants to hear.
  • Microsoft disputes IBM testimony

    Microsoft challenges an executive's claim that Redmond pressured IBM to distribute its browser and not Netscape's.
  • Let's Get This Straight: Court to Microsoft: "Integrated" means whatever you say it does

    In the latest antitrust decision, Microsoft finds some friends on the bench.
  • Who owns the desktop?

    Who owns the desktop? By Andrew Leonard. Microsoft and the Department of Justice stake their claims to the ultimate information battleground: the user interface.
  • Reviews: The little browser that could

    Move over Microsoft and Netscape -- opera is coming to town.
  • 21st:Please, Mr. Postman?

    Netscape's and Microsoft's software just don't get along -- and God anyone who tries to get them to make up and be nice.
  • 21st:They know what's best for you

    Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg. They know what's best for you: Microsoft's claims about how tough it is to remove its browser are only the latest case of the computer industry's arrogant attitude toward customers.
  • 21st: Microsoft to world: Remove our browser and your system will crash.

    Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg. Microsoft to world: Remove our browser and your system will crash.
  • 21st: 21st Briefing

    Scott Rosenberg on the temporary order issued by a federal judge on 12/11/97, forbidding Microsoft to force computer manufacturers to included Internet Explorer whenever they install Windows 95 on a new computer
  • Dragonslayer

    An interview with Ralph Nader who is organizing a conference in Washington, D.C., in Nov. 1997 to explore how Microsoft is extending its near-monopolistic control of the software business into other industries, including banking, insurance, car dealerships, travel services, real estate and television.
  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    One industry sage thought he was joking when he suggested Microsoft buy into Apple. Boy, was he surprised.

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