Internet Explorer has been a staple of Windows installations ever since it first got bundled with Windows 95 OSR1 back in 1996, but for the first time ever, with the release of Windows 11 ...

Windows 95 startup sound added to National Recording ... and being the first version of Windows to eventually pack the first release of Internet Explorer. Another iconic element of the operating ...

However, the OS developer attempted to avoid those royalties by including Internet Explorer 1.5 for free in Windows NT, concluding in a lawsuit and an $8 million payout in January 1997.