Red Hat, Critical Path, Allaire, Cobalt, Phone. Those are just the ones I think about. Netscape acquired Another big event that's fading from memory. This was the year that Netscape became the hole where the Internet used to be. Microsoft is out of the way The focus is off Microsoft.
Key people leave for Internet startups.
They grabbed dominance in web browsers without knowing what they would do with it. Office is a big smoking hulk in the middle of Microsoft. As unncessary punctuation the US goverment intervenes. The best thing that could possibly happen to Microsoft. I have something to say to Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.