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| Netscape Sucks |
| 6:28:21 pm mst / 27 February 2001 found by MysteriousStranger / filed in legal / source The Register 132 hits / 1 comment / 1 e-mail |
| Diana summarizes: Microsoft's contradictory arguments before the Appeals Court were, at least, rather entertaining. Apparently, IE won the browser wars because Netscape sucked, but Netscape needed to be crushed because it was such a grave threat to Windows. |
| Is this supposed to be as funny as it seems? |
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| Comments |
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| Not so by wen 7:10:11 pm mst / 27 February 2001 / # 1 |
| The summarization is incorrect. IE won the browser wars because it was better, which is not the same as Netscape sucked, which in my opinion kind of did, but IE3 REALLY sucked too. Netscape had to be crushed because it was a grave threat to Windows - that's true, but not because it was a superior product, because it was going to be (gasp!) a competing platform to Windows. In Microsoft's mind, the idea of a browser as a platform was terrifying, and every pundit was touting Netscape's browser (communicator/navigator, whatever) as the Windows killer (note, not Internet Explorer killer). So IE won the browser war because it was better than Navigator (that, and of course predatory practices that shoved IE into everyone's face really helped too). But the argument as summarized here is hardly contradictory. Just because enough "Internet" time has passed to make the history a far and distant thing doesn't mean we can distort history like that.
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