Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Internet Explorer
     
         (IE, MSIE) {Microsoft}'s free {World-Wide
        Web} {browser} for {Microsoft Windows}, {Windows 95}, {Windows
        NT}, and {Macintosh}.  Internet Explorer is the main rival to
        {Netscape Navigator} (which runs on many more {platforms}).
        Both support the same core features and offer incompatible
        extensions.
     
        Microsoft combined later versions of IE with their {file
        system} browser, "Explorer" and bundled it with {Windows 95}
        in an attempt to use their dominance of the {desktop}
        {operating system} market to force users to abandon Netscape's
        browser, which they perceived as a potential threat.  This,
        and other dubious business moves, became the subject of a US
        Department of Justice antitrust trial in late 1998/early 1999.
     
        {Home (http://www.microsoft.com/ie/)}.
     
        (1999-01-31)