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US watchdog POKES STICK at Google's Android over rival-blocking allegations

Richard Plinston

> Bundling Internet Explorer did not kill Netscape.

Maybe not, but it did kill Spyglass, the people that wrote IE. Microsoft agreed to pay Spyglass for writing IE with an amount for every copy of IE sold. Microsoft claimed that no copies were ever _sold_ (in spite of being part of the sale of Windows) so yet again a Microsoft 'partner' learns what partnership means.

What did kill Netscape was Microsoft writing non-compatibilities into IE and, for example, Frontpage, so that viewing those pages was messed up in Netscape. Many corporates are still suffering by having to keep IE6 running when MS abandoned them.

> then enjoy horrific levels of bugs and crashes.

Probably caused by Windows detecting that Netscape was running.

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