Internet Exploiter N. Another Common Name-of-insult For Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Overweight Web Browse

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Internet Exploiter n.

Another common name-of-insult for
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's overweight Web Browser; more hostile
than Internet Exploder. Reflects widespread hostility to
Microsoft and a sense that it is seeking to hijack, monopolize, and
corrupt the Internet. Compare Exploder and the less
pejorative Netscrape.

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