Will Bing Turn Google Into Netscape and Why It Matters to Trading

Twelve years ago, a company called Netscape was the hottest software maker in the world. It invented the internet browser and started the online revolution. At one point it owned 80% of the browser market and looked like it was going to dominate computing for the next decade to come. Its competitor Microsoft was an old bureaucratic behemoth. Stuck in Redmond Washington it was producing such “scintillating” products as a multi-CD set encyclopedias while the cool Silicon Valley Netscape was digitizing the whole knowledge base of the world online.

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