[_ea1k]

Netscape had some fairly crazy, ill-conceived ideas of basically turning the Navigator ecosystem into an OS replacement, at least for the shell.

Netscape itself was terrible, but MS saw danger here, since it would effectively commodotize the underlying OS.

They went after it just hard enough to get antitrust oversight. TBH, they didn't need to go that aggressively. The whole thing looks a little ridiculous in hindsight.

[actionfromafar]

MS was exactly right. The browser has commoditized the OS to a very large degree.

[_ea1k]

Yes, they were definitely directionally correct. I remember being really excited by Netscape Constellation at the time: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-the-free-google-...