ricfink - 4:18 pm on May 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

"IE has about 95% market penetration. This was gained by anti-competitive behaviour, massive abuse of monopoly status, the deliberate destruction of the browser market, all of which is ... going unpunished"

I have heard this drivel over and over again and I'm tired of it. (Yes, I'm grumpy today.)

Anyway, my belief is that the Netscape browser will continue on as before. It's been irrelevant for quite a awhile now, anyway but AOL has kept it alive AS INSURANCE.

The world's major online services provider (AOL) simply cannot afford to be at the mercy of Microsoft to provide a browser. They need to keep some kind of an alternative at hand. It's just good business sense.
Doesn't cost that much to keep it alive.

Plus, I think they're using NN7 as part of the MAC AOL client
and their Compuserve client. Why switch back to IE if it's working?