Inherent Risk. Microsoft and Netscape were in fierce competition for dominance of the Internet web browser and software market in 1996. Netscape entered the Internet web browser market first and improved their product

(Navigator) rapidly, so by mid-1996 about 85 per cent of all Internet users used Navigator.

Microsoft then introduced a technologically equivalent web browser (Explorer 3.0) and struck deals with the main commercial on-line services to give Explorer to their users and Microsoft incorporated Explorer into their Windows operating system.

Required

From what you know about these companies and the Internet market use the considerations in determining inherent risk (Illustration 6.7) to analyse which company had the most inherent risk for the internet market

(a) in 1996 and

(b) today.