Originally posted by Slow-N-Low
Netscape has always been a free download, and came bundled with many computers before Microsoft forced vendors to drop it. That is what the big monopoly fuss was about.
I've had a couple of computers with preloaded Netscape, but it was not a free download back in the day.
Most of the MSHTML preloads are caught up in the main Explorer shell, which I do not run.