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Netscape didn't try to do them one better -- Netscape was better, and on the scene long before MS innovation.

For example ... JavaScript? That was created by Netscape. Multi-threaded loading of page elements? Netscape too. Plug-ins? Yep, that was Netscape.

Microsoft originally rejected the whole Internet "thing" as a fad, and got in very late in the game. Then, they bolted the browser to the OS to (1.) regain the ground that they had lost, and (2.) use their OS monopoly position as a platform by which they could influence Internet standards (and make them proprietary MS protocols that could be licensed).

Neither the browser nor the OS are important now -- the trick is to retain control of the standards, patents and especially the data. Already, you can see changes occuring with the growing popularity of web services. Non-browser-based service producers and consumers are becomming more popular.
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Yes, they made improvements...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 01/29/04
Will it patch all of the 24 Unpatched Internet Explorer Bugs  David Mohring | 01/29/04
24 Unpatched Internet Explorer Bugs  nite_w0lf | 01/29/04
24 server reboots  JWatson77 | 01/30/04
Re: The others just havent been published yet.  Rabid Conservative | 01/30/04
IE Patch?  CaptainObvious | 01/29/04
Amen, IE serves no bloody purpose  IT_User | 01/29/04
Takes time to translate to Hindi  Chad_z | 01/29/04
Good Lord You Guys Can Be So  nikoli | 01/29/04
Not all of us  IT_User | 01/29/04
Mozilla runs on WINDOWS too  JWatson77 | 01/30/04
once again  nikoli | 01/30/04
No!  IT_User | 01/30/04
So let me get this straight...  rpmyers1 | 01/29/04
Not actually a standard.  PB_z | 01/30/04
not a standard, but...  ryusen | 01/30/04
Mozilla Flawed Too  nikoli | 01/29/04
Not a flaw, but a feature  Richard Flude | 01/29/04
Already fixed in 1.5.1 and 1.6  David Mohring | 01/29/04
Oooo...  Yen_z | 01/29/04
Heck, I'm stuck on NS 7.1  IT_User | 01/29/04
Forget regular Mozilla..download Firebird!  Bobby Sskcat | 01/29/04
Opera is cool too..  wploger | 01/29/04
it seems Opera has better  yucantrak | 01/29/04
Opera, Mozilla, Firebird and IE  coffeenite | 01/30/04
Firebird  nite_w0lf | 01/29/04
but how can mozilla do it  JWatson77 | 01/29/04
Firebird 0.7, right?  IT_User | 01/30/04
It's...it's...  Yen_z | 01/29/04
Just his voice, right?  IT_User | 01/30/04
No, he was actually spliced in there.  Yen_z | 01/31/04
Mozilla Flawed Too! so what!!!!!  nite_w0lf | 01/29/04
you have to ask yourself  JWatson77 | 01/29/04
Not Quite Right ...  coffeenite | 01/30/04
no Shizzle  nikoli | 01/29/04
If i misunderstood you point i apologise. BTW  nite_w0lf | 01/30/04
In Reality  nikoli | 01/30/04
Didn't Microsoft THEMSELVES say that IE is a part of the OS???  Bobby Sskcat | 01/30/04
Mozilla was only partially affected ...  coffeenite | 01/30/04
Good Lord You Guys Can Be So  zd-spam | 01/29/04
re : Good Lord You Guys Can Be So  JWatson77 | 01/30/04
Guess You Guys  nikoli | 01/30/04
Yeah ... what's up with that?  coffeenite | 01/30/04
get ready to patch all those server  JWatson77 | 01/29/04
The last IE patch  michael-t | 01/29/04
ie  jeffnvegas | 01/29/04
Mozilla  nikoli | 01/29/04
Or Firebird  Chad_z | 01/30/04
I think you're kind of confused ...  coffeenite | 01/30/04
Message has been deleted.  yelenavt@... | 01/30/04
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No Way!!!!  coffeenite | 01/30/04
Great Post !!!!  nikoli | 01/30/04
wait a minute  ryusen | 01/30/04
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