spm-slides.tex: bundling sale and lock in.

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@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ Netscape versus IE in early days (mid and late 1990's).
   \item 1993.  Primitive Mosaic browser (multimedia web pages).
   \item 1994.  Mosaic Communications Corporation, then Netscape Communications.  Mosaic Netscape 0.9, then Netscape Navigator 1.0.  Over three-quarters of the browser market within three months of launching.  From 5 to 2000 programmers.  Virtually no competitors.
   \item 1995.  IPO, market value of 2.9B. A highly innovative product. Thousands of employees.  
-  \item 1997.  Netscape Communicator: Netscape Navigator, Netscape Address Book, Netscape Mail and Newsgroups, and Netscape Composer.
+  \item 1997.  Netscape Communicator: Netscape Navigator, Netscape Address Book, Netscape Mail, Newsgroups, and Netscape Composer.
   \item 1998.  BAD YEAR. Netscape Communicator 5.0 release delayed (and never released).  Acquired by AOL for 4.2B.
   \item 2000.  Netscape 6.0.
   \item 2002.  Netscape 7.0.
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ Netscape versus IE in early days (mid and late 1990's).
   \end{itemize}
 \item IE.
   \begin{itemize}
+  \item 1994. Microsoft talked to Netscape about licensing browser technology.  Declined by Netscape.
   \item 1995. Microsoft IE 1.0, 2.0
   \item 1996. IE 3.0
   \item 1997. IE 4.0
@@ -391,16 +392,26 @@ Poor product, poor product decisions, product direction.
 
 MISTAKE.  Try to do everything from scratch (in year 1998).
 
+Anti-Microsoft.
+
 %JOEL SPOLSKY  https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
 
 {\bf IE's upper hand}.
 
-Always ``Free of charge''.  Microsoft could affort it.
+Always ``Free of charge''.  Giant Microsoft could affort it.
+
+Bundled with Windows 98.  Most people do not switch browsers.
+
+http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eecsba1/sp98/reports/eecsba1c/pj1/freq.gif
 
-Bundled with Windows OS.
+PC makers are locked in to using Windows 98.  
+
+Developer support.
 
 Not that bad in the beginning, and consistently better afterwards. Frequent releases.
 
+
+
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