"...many balked at the extra $50 they had to shell out for Microsoft's Plus Pack, a separate CD that included utilities and other software programs designed to improve the Windows experience. This $50, very un-integrated add-on also contained a web browser. Microsoft had licensed the browser from Spyglass, an application often given away for free on the In- ternet, and dubbed it Internet Explorer 1.0.
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"IE 1.0 shipped in the Plus Pack," longtime programmer Chris Guzak confirmed, referring again to the $50 add-on carried on a separate CD.
Despite the hype and Microsoft's huge marketing budgets leading up to the Windows 95 launch, by the time fall COMDEX rolled around in November 1995, the Windows 95 operating system was nothing more than a sideshow.
COMDEX excitement, an always fickle commodity, had been diverted to Netscape and its graphical web browser called Navigator. Thousands of hardware and software vendors had scrambled to show how their products were Internet centric, and while most of the computers were running Windows 95 under the hood, what people saw on the screen was not Microsoft's icon, but Netscape's big green N."
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"...many balked at the extra $50 they had to shell out for Microsoft's Plus Pack, a separate CD that included utilities and other software programs designed to improve the Windows experience. This $50, very un-integrated add-on also contained a web browser. Microsoft had licensed the browser from Spyglass, an application often given away for free on the In- ternet, and dubbed it Internet Explorer 1.0.
...
"IE 1.0 shipped in the Plus Pack," longtime programmer Chris Guzak confirmed, referring again to the $50 add-on carried on a separate CD.
Despite the hype and Microsoft's huge marketing budgets leading up to the Windows 95 launch, by the time fall COMDEX rolled around in November 1995, the Windows 95 operating system was nothing more than a sideshow.
COMDEX excitement, an always fickle commodity, had been diverted to Netscape and its graphical web browser called Navigator. Thousands of hardware and software vendors had scrambled to show how their products were Internet centric, and while most of the computers were running Windows 95 under the hood, what people saw on the screen was not Microsoft's icon, but Netscape's big green
N."