"But I also believed Microsoft was exaggerating his fears of Netscape."
Microsoft is still in the same position as it was pre-Netscape. It still effectively owns the OS and office software markets. It just wasn't entirely able to take over a couple of new markets.
That failure was pretty bad: MS is no longer seen as a "hot new thing", or a producer of hot new things. But in terms of doing damage to Microsoft, nothing from outside MS has done anything, as far as I can see. (Antitrust lawsuits notwithstanding.)
You got a point (I upvoted you). But Netscape is not in the same position as it was pre-Microsoft. We can't know what would have happened, had Netscape survived.
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"But I also believed Microsoft was exaggerating his fears of Netscape."
Microsoft is still in the same position as it was pre-Netscape. It still effectively owns the OS and office software markets. It just wasn't entirely able to take over a couple of new markets.
That failure was pretty bad: MS is no longer seen as a "hot new thing", or a producer of hot new things. But in terms of doing damage to Microsoft, nothing from outside MS has done anything, as far as I can see. (Antitrust lawsuits notwithstanding.)
You got a point (I upvoted you). But Netscape is not in the same position as it was pre-Microsoft. We can't know what would have happened, had Netscape survived.