English Dictionary: Internet Explorer | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Internet Explorer Web} {browser} for {Microsoft Windows}, {Windows 95}, {Windows NT}, and {Macintosh}. Internet Explorer is the main rival to {Netscape Navigator} (which runs on many more {platforms}). Both support the same core features and offer incompatible extensions. Microsoft combined later versions of IE with their {file system} browser, "Explorer" and bundled it with {Windows 95} in an attempt to use their dominance of the {desktop} {operating system} market to force users to abandon Netscape's browser, which they perceived as a potential threat. This, and other dubious business moves, became the subject of a US Department of Justice antitrust trial in late 1998/early 1999. {Home (http://www.microsoft.com/ie/)}. (1999-01-31) |