[KLUG Members] Is this the end of Netscape?

[Robert G. Brown]

On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:12:14 -0400, Peter Buxton <somercet@core.com> wrote:
>On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:23:23AM -0400, Adam Williams was only escaped
>   alone to tell thee:
>
>> They have always used IE.  The murmured once about switching to
>> Netscape/Mozilla, etc... but it became clear pretty quickly that they
>> were only doing it to rattle Bill's chain.
>Hm. my dad has a fiancee' with AOL, and so he installed it on his
>machine for her. It used Mozilla (I didn't have a chance to inspect it).
How did you know this, then? The IE'ness of AOL is gnerally pretty well 
disguised.

>> How would it?  AOL users are a bunch of ignorant troglodytic
>> sycophants, and there is fewer of them every day; I say let them use
>> Arena!
I'm sure pleased to see that we don't stereotype folks around here :)
Has Arena improved any? Last time I tried it, I got very reliable 
behavior... it crashed ALL the time! :)

I can't actually recall exiting Arena normally.

>I've heard that MSN just isn't taking off. 
Any source[s] for this?

>MS may have decided to exit
>the media business, in which case this agreement is in fact a peace
>treaty between AOL and MS.
There's no evidence of M$ exiting the media business just yet, and it 
is clear that they view media platforms and software as a strategic
component of consumer (at least) marketing. OTOH, there may be a move
to draw back from being a content provider. They may leave this to 
others and focus on the elements of the business they know better.

There is an interesting article analyzing this agreement at:
http://nytimes.com/2003/05/31/technology/31SOFT.html

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