It was the battle for "the web" and the sun+netscape partnership was an actual menace to microsoft's activex and vbscript things. There is an espisode the Lex Fridman podcast with Brendan Eich where he talks a little about that specific time.[1]
The "panic" was right imo (only in that specific area) i mean, there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today.
The "panic" was right imo (only in that specific area) i mean, there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE