Years after winning the browser wars, Internet Explorer remains the dominant web browser with over 60 percent marketshare. But the road to get there wasn’t a smooth one. Paved with questionable deals, legal battles, security risks, brutal competition, and truly welcome new features, it is the road most taken by most web drivers. With Internet Explorer 9 right around the corner, Microsoft’s role as one of the key gatekeepers of the Internet remains assured.
