

Among these was a ruling that Microsoft could not be involved in exclusive dealings with PC manufacturers and software developers. While Microsoft successfully appealed the ruling, it led to strict restrictions being imposed on the corporate. It led the US Department of Justice to launch an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and therefore the judge eventually asked for the corporate to be choppy and said that giving IE for free of charge was actually anti-competitive behaviour. It used this to create IE and bundled it with Windows, whereas Netscape had a $49 tag thereon. this is often the first reason why web browsers today are always available for free of charge. When IE was launched in 1995, the corporate licenced the code wont to make Netscape Navigator, the then-dominant browser.

The story of Internet Explorer (IE) actually covers the primary real antitrust battle faced by Big Tech.
