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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator

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To: Win Smith who wrote (24084)	6/18/2001 11:14:25 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Is the whole IE versus Navigator topic really an issue any more? IE won the battle. Netscape hasn't improved in years, and if you count version 6 as Netscape, it has been getting demonstrably worse. The real battle will be fought between IE and the upstart browsers like Opera, OmniWeb, and iCab. I'm using OmniWeb right now on Mac OS X, and I must say it feels comfortable and solid, as opposed to the cold, aluminum-sided shanty feel of IE. In IE, you know that every feature was designed for anticompatibility and anticompetition. The upstarts will have a huge advantage over Microsoft because they people are rooting for them, in a high-school football-team kind of way. When a team of ten dedicated Unix engineers is working on a browser, I forgive their minor bugs, send bug reports, and encourage them to fight the good fight. They're on my side. But when I find a bug in a Microsoft product I have to wonder, couldn't just a few thousand of their 20-30 billion cash dollars have gone toward fixing this little annoyance? Dave

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