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

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14690)	12/8/1997 2:44:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Respond to of 24154

This thread is frequented by a lot of smart, independent-thinking people Agreed. The best thread that I've seen at SI. 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. Gee, who said MSFT was a T.Rex? Maybe they are a fish, a turtle, a tree, etc., who survived!! :) Netscape is NOT going downhill. I beg to differ. There are a number of ways you can look at it: Stock price, growth rate (and we're not talking about a natural slowdown here, NSCP has seen a major decline), marketshare, etc. Not as though NSCP is on the verge of filing Chapter 11, but they've clearly lost momentum. And do recall that about two years ago, people where saying that the internet (NSCP) would destroy MSFT. Now, they're afraid that MSFT will dominate the internet. That's a big turnaround. throw it [IE] away and get something better EVERY review I've seen puts IE4 ahead of Communicator. Every single one. Sal PS. Will agree with "Hotel California," but I don't blame IE for that--it's a fundamental problem in Windows. Every application that's supposedly unistalled leaves reminents, somewhere. Be it IE, Netscape, WordPerfect, WinZip, Quake, etc., etc., etc. If Microsoft does anything with Windows 98, I pray that they take care of the uninstall problem.