floydb_1982
join:2004-08-25
Kent, WA
 ·Clearwire Wireless
 ·Comcast
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
Re: Farewell Netscape...
If Netscape was so good at the time as your saying it was then how is it that IE became number 1 over Netscape? Oh that's right Microsoft took peoples rights away to uninstall the IE browser. So if you wanted too use a competitor browser you would have to live with 2 web browsers on your computer or just stick with the IE browser. I don't think folks wanted to have 2 web browsers on there computers so more and more people were forced to stick with IE. If Microsoft would include an un-installer with its IE browser then people would have been able to get rid of it and pick a web browser of there choice. Being forced to have IE on your computer is most likely what did in the Netscape browser. Then again you need to use a web browser to download and install another web browser. |
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LibTechie
@westlakelibrary.org
| IE won because it was free (and you couldn't get rid of it).
Early versions of IE sucked big time. The only reason they survived and eventually won the "Browser Wars" is that M$ gave the thing away with their OS while Netscape charged $49 per install. I was a believer and paid the money.
By the time Netscape gave in and started giving away their product it was too late; M$ had started driving nails into their coffin. How, as a company, do you compete against free?
For me the end came when AOL bought 'em up -- same with CompuServe -- both were finished off by AOL. |
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