Netscape as a company had the trajectory of a ballistic missile. Its public offering in 1995 set off the dot-com boom. But Microsoft Corp. fought its efforts to make browser software the new operating system of the digital economy, and not even a Justice Department antitrust investigation could save it.
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
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