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A little bit of Microsoft in our lives | |
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| Time: 08:38 EST/13:38 GMT | News Source: Wireless Week | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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There's always been a little bit of Microsoft in our lives. Well, make that quite a bit. No matter what you do, Bully Bill has you covered. Take the downfall of Netscape, for instance. Seven years ago, this pioneering user-friendly browser enjoyed close to 90 per cent of the browser market, but that was before Microsoft muscled in. Bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with its ubiquitous Windows operating system allowed Microsoft to take the wind out of Netscape's sails -- and sales. Today, Netscape's share of the browser market languishes at less than 5 per cent. As for pioneer Marc Andreessen, he's wised up and moved on to better things. | ||
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| #1 By 1896 (216.78.253.30) at 9/6/2002 10:40:32 AM |
| I hope tha Mr. Anderssen learned also as to run a company in a succesfull way. A company that can't handle competition is a flawed company. |
| #2 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 9/6/2002 12:48:00 PM |
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Yet again, another dumbass writer who knows no facts at all....
The FACTS are that IE started gaining a lot of ground BEFORE it was bundled with Windows. When IE3 came out, people started switching over, as both IE and NS were about the same. Then IE4 came out (note, before the launch of Windows98), and it gained tremendous ground against Netscape, IE5 was just iceing on the cake. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/6/2002 5:18:36 PM |
| What is so exciting about tabs? I just don't get it. I can hit alt+tab to go between different IE windows quite easily. How is that different from shift+tab (I assume Mozilla supports this) to switch between tabs? I just don't get it. |
| #4 By 665 (64.126.91.172) at 9/6/2002 8:44:16 PM |
| I like the tabs, but I'm not really sure what other good features Mozilla has that IE doesn't... besides pop-up killer. |
| #5 By 6253 (12.237.219.240) at 9/6/2002 10:11:12 PM |
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#4, free for academic and non-profit use is not the same as free for everybody. It was not legal for you to use Netscape Navigator at home for personal use unless you were a student/educator. It was not legal for you to use Netscape Navigator in any commercial situation, even if you were a student writing $20 web sites after school. Years later, Netscape made Navigator free for everyone but continued charging for Communicator until acquired by AOL.
IE has always been free of charge, even if you were a Fortune 50 corporation rolling it out to 50,000 desktops worldwide, even if you were an ISP bundling it with your service as a way to add value to what you sell, even if you were an ISV like Intuit or Symantec distributing it with your software for sale. At one time, Microsoft required you to report the number of copies you redistributed each quarter, because IE was originally based upon Spyglass code, and Spyglass required royalties based upon number of copies distributed. Later, Microsoft bought out that royalty provision, so IEAK users don't have to report anymore. At no time have any IE or IEAK users been asked to pay for IE. If you get it with/for Windows, you do pay for Windows, but IE is also available for Unix (Sun Solaris and HP-UX) and MacOS. All versions for all platforms cost exactly $0.00. |
| #6 By 2332 (165.247.10.101) at 9/6/2002 10:34:18 PM |
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Man... I'm getting REALLY sick of "journalists" publishing garbage like this.
I'm not going to repeat my rant anymore... I give up. |
| #7 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/7/2002 3:36:00 PM |
| Oh, just as I thought, there is nothing special about tabs. |
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