&quot;The Microsoft consent decree was about restricting browser choice by shipping their own browser as default and claiming it was unremovable&quot;<p>But it was technically unremovable, in those days you could open a windows explorer and type an URL and then you suddenly have internet explorer right into your window. It was an awful design flaw that costed them lagging apart after the post IE6 era.<p>The other thing is that wouldn&#x27;t matter if Netscape were superior. Actually, it didn&#x27;t matter because that was still the case and once better browsers came up (Firefox, Chrome), Internet Explorer turned in technical debt.<p>So still now the whole &quot;the browser comes as default&quot; sounds like a whining excuse to me.