How the Internet Explorer lost their market share to Google Chrome Failed to stand the test of time AOL finally pulled the plug in 2008.
Microsoft started with its own browser, but the initial endeavors were abysmal failures. When Microsoft provided its own browser for free, Netscape also provided its own for free, but eventually lost out on its market share. Actually, Netscape should have seen this was happening because Netscape knew in the beginning itself that Microsoft was interested in browsing technology and Netscape had rejected the offer about licensing their browsing technology with them in 1994.
While IE was free, Netscape was not free completely and this brought a huge market share advantage to Microsoft.
The fact that American Online supported Netscape did not help much. When Microsoft came, Netscape had to bow outĮventually, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer emerged as the most formidable opponent for Netscape Navigator. Eventually, the company began to realize that its success and profit lies with maturing applications market and Internet infrastructure. The development of Netscape was largely possible due to complementary plug-ins run from browser window. Netscape had to provide a range of complementary products when it was released because it needed the assistance of an operating system. Netscape Navigator was launched at a time when the huge and costly super computers were replaced with more user-friendly and cost-efficient workstations. Clark were the founders of Netscape Navigator in 1994 and its popularity grew far and wide.
Netscape Navigator, the web browser which ruled the world in the early 1990s succumbed to a sad end when Internet Explorer began to take the reins of the web browser world.