Before they were locked in a death struggle known as the â??browser war,â? the software giant Microsoft and Web upstart Netscape made nice, at least for a while.
Representatives of the two companies met on cordial terms in 1995. Microsoft expressed interest in investing in Netscape and had even congratulated the upstart on developing an immensely popular graphical browser to access the World Wide Web.
The pretense of cordiality dissipated on June 21, 1995, at a four-hour meeting at Netscape headquarters in Mountain View, California, at which representatives of Microsoft delivered what Netscape considered a heavy-handed threat: Divide the market for Web browsers or face the prospect of annihilation.
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