Internet Explorer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Internet Explorer
    n 1: a commercial browser [syn: {Internet Explorer}, {Explorer},
         {IE}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Internet Explorer
IE
MSIE

   <World-Wide Web> (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.

   (http://microsoft.com/ie/).

   (1999-01-31)