Mozilla's early builds of Phoenix and Firebird started to gain traction in 2003, however, and by Firefox 1.0's release in 2004 IE's trend of domination had begun its steady reversal - and today, some nine years down the line, IE has only gained in market share twice: first with the release of IE7 and Vista, and then with the release of IE9 earlier this year. Thanks to Windows XP, IE6 owned 95% of the market (Opens in a new window), and to this day it is because of Windows XP's enduring undeath that IE6 still has 10% of the world's browser share. It's hard to imagine now, with the Big Three browsers vying for your attention, but back in 2002 there was only one web browser: Internet Explorer. Today - eight years and three days after Mozilla was founded - some 400 million web surfers use Firefox, tens of millions use Thunderbird, and the state of the World Wide Web couldn't be healthier. Thunderbird 1.0, which started life as Minotaur, was also released around the same time. A flurry of Firefox beta builds were released - first under the name of Phoenix, then Firebird, and eventually Firefox - and version 1.0 was finally released in November 2004. On July 15, 2003, the Mozilla Foundation burst forth from Netscape, and in one fell swoop both created and cemented its preeminent position as the champion of The Open Web.
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