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(Unverified)Feb 5th 2008 10:34AM
What exactly are you referring to when you say "Microsoft used a similar method to get Windows users to use Internet explorer instead of Netscape" ?
Microsoft just bought a browser that was hardly used at all and turned it into the first version of IE. Not quite the same.
ronin691Feb 5th 2008 10:59AM
Ummmm no, they made IE the default browser inside Windows and did not let the user switch.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
(Unverified)Feb 5th 2008 12:26PM
@Todd: That has even less parallels to Microsoft buying Yahoo...
(Unverified)Feb 5th 2008 12:42PM
Yeah, I really don't see the Yahoo!/Netscape connection AT ALL. Microsoft licensed code from Spyglass (Mosaic), Netscape was also largely based on Mosaic. Microsoft didn't buy Spyglass or put them out of business (some other company bought them in 2000 and they never made any intentions of releasing a stand-alone web browsing product).
All debates over the ethics/legalities of the strong-armed tactics of IE being bundled aside (and I still contend that a major, MAJOR reason Netscape faltered was that IE 3.5, the big turning point, was a better browser, period, than Netscape. Netscape Communicator (Netscape 4?) was awful, let's not let nostalgia make us look back fondly on a crappy product. I remember distinctly switching from Netscape Gold to IE 3.5 (and I PAID $60 or $70 for Netscape Gold), not because it was free, but because it was better.), I really don't see the parallels between buying Yahoo! and Browser Wars 1.0.