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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]liorean said:[/b] I never said Microsoft wasn't instrumental in killing Netscape.However, how much does that have to do with the AOL acquisition of Netscape? Netscape was badly managed way before AOL bought the company. That's my point. AOL just let the company continue the same way they already had been going, it hardly touched Netscape management and didn't present any demands of results from Netscape.-- var Liorean = { abode: "http://codingforums.com/", profile: "http://codingforums.com/member.php?u=5798"}; [/quote] Yes, agreed - but you're projecting that NS would have gone belly up on its own. We don't know that for sure, could navigator have made a course correction? In fact NS started its decline when Navigator was still a much better browser than IE. The NS decline coincides sharply with MS giving its own browser (IE) away for free and bundling it with the OS. [Microsoft was also accused of bullying hardware makers not to distribute NetScape -they were found innocent of course.] Today, if OEM PCs were shipping with quality browsers, they wouldn't be shipping with IE 7 would they? So an inferior browser ships along with the latest hardware technology because MS cleverly bundled IE with their lousy OS's - as they did their instant messenger and their media player and their version of Photoshop (MS Paint). My point is that no matter how well, or poorly, NS was managed, Microsoft was eventually going to put them out of business because too much was at stake (the Internet) in Bill and Steve's eyes. MS is a monopolistic bully, devoid of innovation (e.g. Vista) and kills innovation in competitors whenever it can get away with it. [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/6261]SleepingWolf[/url] on 01-07-2008 02:32)[/small] Loading...
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