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Simple really...back in the day Netscape was an
independant company that thrived off it's inovation and huge
lead in the browser field. Much like WordPerfect and others. MS
had the OS war's in effect won, and used that muslce to begin
to compete with Netscape. There first several attempts were
well..BAD (Much like what MS offten does...first several attempts
dismal) Still MS had the income coming from it's OS and it had
the muscle coming from it's control of the OS to get companies
to include IE Explorer in their computer sales. Like Word vs
WoldPerfect. So as IE improved....Netscape like WordPerfecct
lost market share and each did NOT have the advantage of a
huge money maker like the virtual domminance of Dos/Windows
to pump money into their projects or to muscle distrubutors/
manufacturers into including their products in each and every
sale. So with time MS won.

Now MS is suffereing from the ill effects off a lack of healthy
competitioni. IE has been shown countless times to be bug and
whole ridden...making it a secutiry concern. Also MS has been
well lazy..and has not put a lot of effort in keeping IE fresh and
innovative.

So now even MS's strenghts have turned into her weeknesses
and yes others will take advantage.

"All glory and praise to Allah"

Cleric jim
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Great to see Mozilla driving choice. Great to see Billy squirm.  DonnieBoy | 09/20/04
What I find interesting  rapson | 09/21/04
Competition Foothold  jacarter3 | 09/21/04
Simple really...back in the day Netscape was an  Laff | 09/21/04
Hard to compare...  msdead | 09/23/04
The revolution will be televised!  Jeff Spicoli | 09/20/04
Microsoft has lost it's grass roots  Oscar_Goldman | 09/20/04
Not one download from my company...  Mike Cox | 09/20/04
Pretty good for a hip shot  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/20/04
I rather liked it...  Martin Marvinski | 09/20/04
7.5  d_jedi | 09/20/04
6.5  CobraA1 | 09/20/04
Oh really?  prong@... | 09/21/04
Here's the pitch... wow, it went right over his head!!!  James T. Kirk | 09/21/04
Actually the pitch was fairly accurate (As most of Mr Cos's are)  Laff | 09/21/04
You are and oddball that's for sure...  DigitalKid | 09/21/04
RE: You are [an] oddball  JakAttak | 09/22/04
rapid-fire deployment of all Microsoft technologies  msdead | 09/23/04
Internet Explorer? What's that?  skeptic tank | 09/20/04
Oh, you know...  Martin Marvinski | 09/20/04
Congrats to Mozilla team!!  STFU NOOB | 09/20/04
Bravo STFU NOOB....bravo!  Laff | 09/21/04
Yay! Power to the People  Bill_gates_Is_SATAN | 09/20/04
Hey fella, you really have problems.  Linux_Developer | 09/21/04
HA! Another one bites the dust  Bill_gates_Is_SATAN | 09/21/04
Wonder how many people..  d_jedi | 09/20/04
SP2 and Firefox  Roger Ramjet | 09/21/04
Oddly enough....  jvahabzadeh | 09/21/04
Not my experience....  ~rpb~ | 09/23/04
Good news for all....  Laff | 09/21/04
Great doubleclicks almighty  FilledOut | 09/21/04
I'm a Microsoft fan  rbethell | 09/21/04
A whole one millon? WOW!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/21/04
Maybe it's one guy with and unliimited prono budgeet...  Laff | 09/21/04
Have you REALLY tried it Ax?  Roger Ramjet | 09/21/04
A whole one millon  michael-t | 09/21/04
And think about the averages  AbsolutelyNot | 09/21/04
Once Again, Our Resident Village Idiot No_Ax Chimes In  itanalyst | 09/21/04
RE: A whole one millon? WOW!  JakAttak | 09/22/04
Using it now  AbsolutelyNot | 09/21/04
Good for you Tech Diva!  itanalyst | 09/21/04
Congratulations to the Firefox team  hipparchus2000 | 09/21/04
Yahoo, death to IE and Opera,  FilledOut | 09/22/04

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