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Originally posted by payrollpete
All this news IE VS NETSCAPE
they need to give up, they are a bunch of whiney bastards
so microsoft took their ass out by packaging their IE with their windows, its your choice if you want to use it to get on the internet or not.
IE is faster then netscape, and has many better features. Netscape needs to just get over the fact everybody loves IE (or most people) and do not want netscape.
My stats have said the same thing for years, More IE users and less and less netscape users, so they need to shove their piece of shit netscape up their ass
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/interne....ap/index.html
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you're missing the point completely pete. this isnt really a matter of 'people do not want netscape' and 'netscape is dead', "netscape sucks", netscape is the company, mozilla is the browser. "netscape" the browser is long dead. mozilla is a new entity and is attempting to challenge a monopoly in ways not previously possible. For instance, as part of microsofts settlement a few months ago, pc manufacturers can't be punished for including rival browsers with their OS, even if they're set as the primary browser. its almost a certainty AOL will use mozilla for all of their subscribers soon, boom 30 million people using mozilla.
what happens when aol starts releasing aol instant message specific toolbars and plugins for mozilla on top of that? how many other isps do you think will also give out preconfigured mozilla as part of their new user package?
because of the nature of MSIE being completely proprietary and hardly extendable, mozilla will most likely become the browser of choice for the majority of web enabled 'appliances'. when joe blow dipshit gets used to using netscape on his playstation, his palmpilot, and airport terminals etc, it may become preferably or advantageous for him to remain consistant with his pc's browser also.
the part that sucks for us is it's annoying to have to support 2 browsers, but that should be preferably to any reasonable person over giving a company like microsoft a complete monopoly, who achieved it so unethically and ILLEGALLY, because its convienant.