InstitutionClaim Cited
Microsoft during the Internet Explorer era
Between Netscape Navigator's rise in 1994 and the final antitrust judgment in 2002, Microsoft turned Internet Explorer from a weak new browser into a capable free product distributed through Windows. The same campaign used access to Windows, desktop placement, contracts, and technical integration to make refusal costly for Netscape, computer makers, access providers, developers, and users.
How did the owner of the dominant PC operating system turn a browser competition into governance over the channels by which browsers reached users?