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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chi-X who wrote (14689)	12/8/1997 1:59:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>Looking at the browser statistics for my website, Since you are so convinced, how about sharing the actual statistics, your methodology and the demographics of your web site audience with us. This thread is frequented by a lot of smart, independent-thinking people, who are not necessarily willing to take your word for it. Maybe your site statistics are an easily explained abberation (Like, maybe you post fixes for IE bugs;)). >I'm convinced that Netscape is >going downhill unless MSFT loses this case. Whether DOJ wins or loses the Consent Decree case is irrelevant. Netscape is NOT going downhill. >Even with MSFT losing the case, I just >think it'll slow them down but in the long run Microsoft will eventually win the war. Around the end of the Age of Dinosuars, Tyrannosaurus Rex looked pretty invincible. But then the environment changed, and T. Rex couldn't keep up. I submit the same thing is happening to Microsoft. >There is just too much consolidation in the Internet access arena. Most companies >are trying to shave a dollar off here and there. Just exactly what do you mean by this? Are you talking about ISP's? If so, let's see some facts and figures. If you are talking about Corporate Intranets, I'd wager you're wrong, but let's see your facts and figures on that, too. >Why pay for Netscape Navigator when you can get Microsoft Internet Explorer for >free. Because IE, with its problems and anxieties about installation (the "Hotel California" of Browsers: "You can delete it any time you like, but it will never leave"), is more hassle than it's worth. Since it's free, it costs you nothing to throw it away and get something better (assuming of course that deleting it doesn't screw up your whole operating system).