“America Online on Tuesday fired the first shot in what may signal the rekindling of the Web browser wars against Microsoft. The Internet giant launched CompuServe 7.0 with Netscape bundled as its default browser. CompuServe, AOL’s other online service, previously used Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as its default browser, and AOL itself continues to use IE. “We’re backing the product because we think it’s a good one and we want to put it in users’ hands, and CompuServe is a good place to get it out there,” AOL spokesman Josh Danson said.” Read the rest of the report at ZDNews.
Netscape, not IE, Put on New CompuServe
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mainly LAZY web designers who only code for IE5+
someone remind us how many millions use AOL and Compuserve?
( BTW this explains how AOL will run on Lindows OS – if it ever comes to the market )
Let this be one of the many signs that M$ is starting on its downward spiral!
pretty pretty please with cocaine on top
Had Mozilla 1.0 been ready, $10 says they woulda (or at least shoulda) used that. My deepest sympathies go out to all the Compuserve sheep.
Isn’t this the same Netscape that silently reports your google quieries to AOL?
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html
I’m all for the browser arena to be reopened, and Netscape 6 might in some cases not suck, but I’m still a bit paranoid when it comes to browsers that report my search strings to the mothership.
mainly LAZY web designers who only code for IE5+
Unfortunately you lose a lot of control over your HTML with Visual Studio .NET and their web applicatications. Of course it uses DIV tags, but it’s placement doesn’t follow standards so Mozilla often can’t render it.
I thought all the compuserve accounts were switched over to aol years ago. btw ruprecht don’t get too excited, after all this is the one product that loses ms money (since its free and all) so even if a miracle happens and mozilla or netscape dominate ms will still be around.
Isn’t this the same Netscape that silently reports your google quieries to AOL?
Microsoft does similar stuff:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24152.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.html
If you don’t like Netscape, don’t use it. You can get the same features from Mozilla, Galeon, Chimera and a whole bunch of other apps. Mozilla is GPL: spyware cannot exist without somebody noticing it. Can the same be said for IE?
Unfortunately you lose a lot of control over your HTML with Visual Studio .NET and their web applicatications.
Then don’t use them.
Netscape, partly Mozilla, not IE, not Opera and definetely not NetPositive.. why mention all the things it’s not?
I’m gonna let you in on a secret, theregister is antims. The phoning home for chapter info is what every player does (winamp, qt, real, musicmatch), but instead of using the cddb ms is using its own server (I guess, i don’t use wmp so for all I know it also just checks the cddb or a movie database). As for uniquely identifying the player there is an option to turn that off (yes its stupid that its there, but at least its a standard option to be able to get rid of it, morpheus tracks everything you see online now and you can’t turn that off). And the search assistant was checking for newer versions of those files (thus making updates easier for joe user). All these are are examples of possibly good intentions on ms’ part shown in the harshest light possible.
For the same reason you might say “Conservatives, not Labour to form next British government” rather than “Conservatives, not Monster Raving Looney Party to form next British government”. Compuserve used IE in previous versions of their product and it is notable that AOL has elected to replace IE in the Compuserve system, presumably to get some real world feedback before the next AOL (with Netscape) goes gold.
Netscape, partly Mozilla, not IE, not Opera and definetely not NetPositive.. why mention all the things it’s not?
Uhhm… Because it used to be IE and is not IE any more?