Before
Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer dominated the industry, Netscape Communications Corporation’s flagship product was the most widely used browser during the 1990’s. Netscape Navigator, or simply Netscape, was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share during its prime. The web browser was developed by the same team behind the Mosaic web browser. Originally, the company was supposed to be named "Mosaic Communications Corporation” and the web browser as “Mosaic Netscape", but legal challenges from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications prevented and forced the creators to rename their company and their product. Greg Sands, a sales representative from the company, came up with the name “Netscape.”
User share of the Netscape Navigator is almost non-existent by 2002. It was partly because of Microsoft’s decision to include the Windows Internet Explorer software in their
operating system bundle. Many viewed Microsoft’s move to be unfair and accused them of controlling the monopoly of operating system and web browser sales. The inclusion of a default web browser in an operating system caused many users of Windows to settle for the Internet Explorer instead of downloading Netscape (which was slow
using dial-up modems) or purchasing it at a store.
