Memoirs From the Browser Wars
Great story about Spyglass, who licensed their browser to companies, including Microsoft who used it for the early versions of IE. Some cool quotes.
Talking about Microsoft dominating...
We sold our browser technology to 120 companies, but one of
them slaughtered the other 119.
How many people worked on IE...
"The original Internet Explorer team was just five or six people. By the time
Silverberg and others decided to rewrite the browser almost completely for
version 3.0, released in 1996, the team had grown to 100. By 1999, it was more
than 1,000."
On when he decided Browser War I was over...
Scott told me that the IE
team had over 1,000 people. I was stunned. That was 50 times the size of the Spyglass browser
team. It was almost as many people as Netscape had in their whole
company. I could have written the rest of the history of web browsers on
that day -- no other outcomes were possible.
