I know enough about the antitrust situation wherein Microsoft essentially forced IE on everyone in a bid to drive Netscape (successfully) to irrelevance, but I guess I don't really understand _why_?<p>Can someone with more of a sense of history elucidate me as to what Microsoft's motivation was around this, since IE itself was always free? I guess I need this expanded out to a greater understanding of the context of the _why_ behind the browser wars in general: was it all part of a long game that leads to Microsoft hoping they can drive relevance and revenue from ancillary upsells like Bing/Bing Ads/Bing Cash/whatever? None of that was even on the horizon... so was it part of some bigger recognition that the computer and operating system was going to be essentially a pure vehicle to a browser and thus reduce the dependency and importance of the OS itself? I mean, that's what happened anyway, I'm just asking for what drove them to insanity with IE dominance?