![]() It replaced it with a Start Screen that consisted of tiles. Microsoft killed the Start Menu, the way users had been navigating their PCs since Windows 95. Let's talk about Windows 8 as a whole, so you can better grasp what Metro was. Microsoft appealed and in 2001, it was no longer under the obligation to break up. The next year, the court ordered that Microsoft must be split into two: one company to make Windows, and another company to make software. In late 1999, it was actually found that Microsoft was acting as a monopoly. This is where the United States Justice Department got involved. ![]() The Redmond firm strongly incentivized OEMs to help grow Internet Explorer, and actively tried to stop them from bundling Netscape, even keeping them from displaying another browser's icon on the desktop. So, why didn't Netscape just get OEMs to bundle their browser with Windows? No one knew what to do with their computers back then (again, people barely knew what the internet was and AOL was trying to get people to use keywords because no one understood URLs), and software vendors wanted their stuff on new PCs, so any new PC would come with loads of third-party software. ![]() I know what you're thinking: What about bloatware? The 90s were huge for bloatware. Bundling a web browser with Windows 98 meant people were going to use it, because the alternative was going to a store and buying Netscape, which means having to take action and pay money. But the point is, obtaining software took time and work. Sure, you could download software from some sites and it would take forever. I try to paint that picture because it's a completely different landscape.
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