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Internet Explorer is a World Wide Web browser launched by Microsoft Corporation in 1995.
Internet Explorer是微软公司在1995年推出的一款万维网浏览器。
Within a few years of its release--and especially after being bundled with the Windows 95 operating system--Internet Explorer quickly became the most popularly used tool for browsing the Web.
在发布后的几年内，特别是在与Windows 95操作系统捆绑后，IE迅速成为最受欢迎的网络浏览工具。
Its success in the 1990s brought forth the first of the so-called "Browser Wars"--heated competitions between corporations to make their Web browser the dominant one.
20世纪90年代，IE浏览器的成功引发了第一场所谓的“浏览器战争”——企业之间为了使自己的网络浏览器成为主流而展开的激烈竞争。
Microsoft's leading competitor, Netscape, complained to the U.S. government that the free market had been disrupted: by packaging Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft had made a monopoly.
微软的主要竞争对手网景(Netscape)向美国政府抱怨说，微软干扰了自由市场：通过将IE浏览器与Windows打包，微软形成了垄断。
Though the courts agreed that Microsoft had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, an attempted breakup order was overturned, and Microsoft was given free reign over the market.
尽管法院认为微软违反了《谢尔曼反托拉斯法》(Sherman Antitrust Act)，但一项试图解除捆绑的命令被推翻，微软获得了对市场的自由支配。
From 2003 to 2004, it was as if no other browser existed: Internet Explorer controlled an estimated 90 percent of the market.
从2003年到2004年，其他浏览器似乎都消失了：IE控制了大约90%的市场份额。
It wasn't until late in 2004 that Microsoft finally gained some competition.
直到2004年底，微软才终于迎来了一些竞争。
When Firefox entered the game with now-common features like a search bar and support for multiple tabs, it kicked off the second Browser War.
当Firefox以搜索栏和支持多个标签等现在很常见的功能进入该领域时，它开启了第二次浏览器战争。
By the time Microsoft tried to make major updates to Internet Explorer, it was too late.
等到微软想对IE浏览器进行重大升级时，为时已晚。
Apple Safari and Google Chrome were both on the rise--and in this war, it was the latter that would end up as the victor.
苹果Safari和谷歌Chrome都在崛起，而在这场战争中，最终胜利的是后者。
