Agreed, and the bundling of a web browser wasn't the problem, it was the symptom. The problem was that one company had (at the time) near monopolistic power over the mainstream technology revolution. The problem was that Internet Explorer was bundled to combat the idea of Netscape becoming a platform to distribute network applications.
(And you have to give Microsoft credit for taking the threat seriously, because many people would have dismissed the notion in the 1990s. Today there is no doubt. The open platform created by web browsers has already inflicted the greatest damage to Windows' dominance, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.)
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Agreed, and the bundling of a web browser wasn't the problem, it was the symptom. The problem was that one company had (at the time) near monopolistic power over the mainstream technology revolution. The problem was that Internet Explorer was bundled to combat the idea of Netscape becoming a platform to distribute network applications.
(And you have to give Microsoft credit for taking the threat seriously, because many people would have dismissed the notion in the 1990s. Today there is no doubt. The open platform created by web browsers has already inflicted the greatest damage to Windows' dominance, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.)