The beginning of the end for the Netscape Browser???

[suekamm at mindspring.com]

Raymond Wood wrote:

  On 8 Jun 2001, at 13:54, Drew, Bill wrote:

  > Netscape was dead the minute it was sold to AOL-TimeWarner.  
  That
  > should have been obvious that a content company would not 
  continue to
  > develop a browser especially when it can't compete with IE.

  Well, since this seems to be my day for splitting hairs...  :)

  I think Navigator was competing with Explorer just fine.  The real
  issue was that Netscape (the company) could not compete with
  Microsoft's huge war chest combined with its monopolistic
  practices (i.e. product dumping).

Suffice to say that the only MS software I DON'T like is IE.  I think NS is far less clunky.  

BTW, I made the mistake of downloading and trying to use NS 6.0.  
There's no way to update mail folders or address lists.  I went back to NS 4.7x.  MUCH easier!
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