Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were also introduced with version 3 of Internet Explorer.
#HISTORY OF BROWSER WINDOWS#
Later, Microsoft NetMeeting and Windows Media Player were integrated into the product and thus helper applications became not as necessary as they once were. It also brought the browser much closer to the bar that had been set by Netscape, including the support of Netscape's plugins technology ( NPAPI), ActiveX, frames, and a reverse-engineered version of JavaScript named JScript. Version 3 included Internet Mail and News 1.0 and the Windows Address Book.
In 1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US$8 million. Microsoft thus made no direct revenues on IE and was liable to pay Spyglass only the minimum quarterly fee.
#HISTORY OF BROWSER FREE#
Internet Explorer 3.0 was released free of charge in August 1996 by bundling it with Windows 95, another OEM release. "Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 adds many new features which are great for HTML authors and demonstrates our accelerating commitment to W3C HTML standards." Version 2 was also included in Microsoft's Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 in early 1996, which retailed for US$19.99 and included a how-to book and 30 days of Internet access on MSN among other features. Version 2.0 was also released for the Macintosh and Windows 3.1 in April 1996. Version 2.0 was released for both Windows 95 and Windows NT in November 1995, featuring support for SSL, cookies, VRML, and Internet newsgroups. Version 1.5 was released several months later for Windows NT, with support for basic table rendering, an important early web standard. Microsoft originally released Internet Explorer 1.0 in August 1995 in two packages: at retail in Microsoft Plus! add-on for Windows 95 and via the simultaneous OEM release of Windows 95. The browser was then modified and released as Internet Explorer.
#HISTORY OF BROWSER LICENSE#
The license to Microsoft provided Spyglass (and thus NCSA) with a quarterly fee plus a percentage of Microsoft's revenues for the software. Internet Explorer was initially built using the Spyglass, not the NCSA source code.
Spyglass in turn delivered two versions of the Mosaic browser to Microsoft, one wholly based on the NCSA source code, and another engineered from scratch but conceptually modeled on the NCSA browser.
The original Mosaic came from NCSA, but since NCSA was a public entity it relied on Spyglass as its commercial licensing partner. The first Internet Explorer was derived from Spyglass Mosaic. Microsoft also developed Internet Explorer for Mac, Internet Explorer for UNIX, and Internet Explorer Mobile respectively for Apple Macintosh, Unix, and mobile devices the first two are discontinued but the latter runs on Windows CE, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone.īeginnings and Spyglass Mosaic (1995–1997) Microsoft developed 11 versions of Internet Explorer for Windows from 1995 to 2013. Historical market share of Internet Explorer, 1995–2019
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