Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
When IE4 came out, it wasn't bilt in to the OS.

It was also infinately better than netscape, you could all of a sudden do amazing things on a web page.

It was better by far, the practices they ingaged in, by rolling IE into key updates, mearly forced people to install it. It was very easy to use the asocations in the registry (and well documented) to change the default browser. Its a dirty trick, but if the alternative is considered better, people will still use it, look at growth of the firey ferrit.
IE4 was ****
Why? I remember back in the 56k days comparing the page load time of IE3 vs IE4. IE4 took about twice as long to do everything!