> I really HATE comments taken out of context and then criticized.
My apologies for any misinterpretation, I should have trimmed more zealously. I was commenting only on the text immediately before mine. Hey, it was the day after the party, I wasn't exactly on tip-top mental form. More appropriately trimmed version below. >>> I thought that Netscape lost market share because [...] and >>> Micro$hit shipping IE with Windows, and automatically installing >>> it when installing Windows, and putting a link directly onto the >>> desktop which could not be removed by normal methods of deleting >>> stuff. >>> >>and threatened to destroy (by refusing to sell them windows) >>OEMs who wanted to remove IE and give customers Netscape if >>they wanted it. And many customers DID want Netscape, since >>it was the market leader back then.