Around the same time, AOL started bundling their software with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. During this period, both the browser and the suite were known as Netscape Navigator. Version 2.0 added a full mail reader called Netscape Mail, thus transforming Netscape from a mere web browser to an Internet suite. Netscape's feature-count and market share continued to grow rapidly after version 1.0 was released. The browser was the most advanced available and was an instant success, becoming market leader while still in beta. The company's name also changed from Mosaic Communications Corporation to Netscape Communications Corporation. The first version of the browser was released in 1994, known as Mosaic and then Mosaic Netscape until a legal challenge from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (makers of NCSA Mosaic, which many of Netscape's founders had spent time developing) which led to the name change to Netscape Navigator. A decade later, it was easy for the company to bundle the first version of its own web browser, Internet Explorer 1.0, with its Windows 95 operating system, installing it on new PCs as a freebie.Netscape Navigator was the name of Netscape's web browser from versions 1.0 through 4.8. Microsoft Windows had been the dominant operating system since 1985 when manufacturers of the earliest personal computers started looking for customers beyond the hobbyist market. Microsoft had a huge advantage: It could package Explorer with its ubiquitous operating system and thus feature it prominently in the vast majority of new personal computers sold.Microsoft launched its first version of Internet Explorer the same year.Netscape's IPO in 1995 was a seminal event of the internet boom years. Navigator was briefly the dominant internet browser.It made the World Wide Web easier to use.
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