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by tlianza 5378 days ago
This is a good reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer#OS_compatibil...

IE 4.0 was a revelation and IE 5.0 was fantastic as well - effectively it was death knell for Netscape and all competition (earned MS a monopoly suit, but in truth it was a vastly superior browser to anything out there).

They won the browser war. Then, check out the time difference between IE6 and IE7. 5 years. That's where innovation goes absent credible competition.