On Netscape's Demise
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The death of Netscape seems an inappropriate measure of the success of the Microsoft antitrust decree.
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For those who have been technology enthusiasts for years, there is a familiar war brewing in the technology industry. Mozilla, an open-source community of developers and testers that was started by Netscape
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InfoWorld - AOL needs all the Internet traffic it can get, but it is struggling with the fading popularity of Netscape.com, for many years one of the Web&#39;s most popular destinations.
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Is Google the Next Netscape?  To draw a parallel between Netscape &#038; Google in their fight against Microsoft, it is necessary to examine the various similarities between the two situations and see if the tactics that worked then will work now.   Netscape&rsquo;s business model consisted of selling webservers to organizations. Its ...
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Once the dominant Web browser, AOL has discontinued development and active support for the Netscape browser.
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For AOL to quite literally breathe new life into the Netscape browser, it needs to do more than embrace and work with IE: Netscape needs to surpass IE in terms of ease-of-use and functionality.
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Netscape is partially responsible for the beginning of another browser (the programme you log on to the internet with) battleâthe fledgling Firefox vs the mighty Microsoft.
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A decade ago, geeks greeted the release of Netscape&#39;s new web browser with great anticipation. A similar sense of expectation surrounded each subsequent version of Netscape Navigator and, to a much lesser
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Netscape is synonymous in my mind with missed opportunity. After AOL bought the company it totally neglected it and IE ate all its remaining market share. Since that time the Netscape brand has been &#8220;reinvented&#8221; several times, as a low-cost ISP, a Digg clone and now a personalized start page.  Indeed, a new My.Netscape is joining [...]
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Netscape Communications has released Netscape 7.2, successor to the older version 7.1, which was released in mid-2003. The new release is based on version 1.7 of Mozilla, the most recent version of the Mozilla Internet application suite.
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The internet has dragged a âstuffy old businessâ into the 21st century.
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The Netscape browser turned 10 years old last week as a shadow of its former self, but the lights haven&#39;t gone out yet on one of the most storied brands in Web history.
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A little over a year after it relaunched Netscape.com to much fanfare as a social news site very similar to Digg, AOL confirmed Thursday it is pulling the plug, reverting back to a more mainstream Netscape portal. AOL will keep the Digg-like site alive, but at another currently undecided location.
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An historic name in software will effectively pass into history in February as AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser, according to an official blog.AOL will keep delivering security patches for the current version of Netscape until Feb. 1, 2008, after which it will no longer provide active support for any version of the software, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com. The Netscape.com Web site will remain as a general-purpose portal.Netscape was the original mass-market Web browser and helped to popularize the Internet in the mid-1990s, but it has long taken a back seat to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Firefox itself traces its roots back to Netscape software that was made into open source. The Mozilla Foundation was founded in 2003, with support from AOL, and has released successive versions of Firefox while AOL continued to develop Netscape on top of the same platform, Drapeau wrote.Groups within AOL have tried and failed to revive Netscape Navigator and gain market share against Internet Explorer, according to the blog entry.&quot;AOL&#39;s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported Web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be,&quot; Drapeau wrote. &quot;Given AOL&#39;s current business focus ... we feel it&#39;s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla, and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox,&quot; Drapeau wrote.The Mosaic Netscape browser was posted for downloading in 1994 by Mosaic Communications, which later changed its name to Netscape Communications. That company kicked off the dot-com boom with its hugely successful initial public offering in August 1995 and was acquired by AOL in 1999. But Internet Explorer, introduced in 1995, eventually dominated the browser market. Microsoft&#39;s bundling of its browser with Windows operating systems was a key issue in antitrust lawsuits filed against it in 1997.As of this month, Netscape had only 0.6 percent of the browser market, which was still dominated by Internet Explorer with more than 77 percent, according to Web application and analytics firm Net Applications. Firefox was gaining, however, with market share just over 16 percent.Users will still be able to download old versions of Netscape from an archive, currently located here, though they will not be supported by AOL, Drapeau wrote.
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Jim Barksdale is probably laughing his fool head off. Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer, the Web browser with which Microsoft crushed Barksdale&#39;s Netscape Navigator, is slipping in popularity and it&#39;s Microsoft&#39;s own damn fault.
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AOL are working on a new own-brand web browser just as the browser wars enter a new phase. Recently, Microsoft really has shot itself in the foot - it looked like the once-bitter war was over and that just