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What is AOL's strategy..............???
AOL's strategy is a total mystery to me now....??

A few days ago I saw Netscape advertising their internet service. Today I hear they are going to offer a new browser. Now I suppose that it's possible that Netscape operates as a seperate unit. In all likelyhood AOL has sensed weakness in IE's marketshare. Perhaps AOL sees this as a way to steer Netscape customers to AOL. On the otherhand perhaps Netscape see this as a way to diffuse Microsoft's monopoly.

But it's amazing that the same company that produces the Netscape communicator can produce a clunky piece spamware like AOL. Personally I am a bit suprised that the hacking community has not targeted AOL. If AOL was smart they would have developed a less intrusive software and targeted the business community. AOL made a half hearted attempt with the AOL IM for business and was soundly rejected.
Posted by: rshimizu12@...   Posted on: 11/17/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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At least they know Firefox=Better Browser  richman555 | 11/17/04
AOl and Gecko engine  Joe Blow_z | 11/17/04
How important is this?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/17/04
Not very.  Anton Philidor | 11/17/04
Certainly not INsignificant  IT_User | 11/18/04
It's already done surprising penetration  CobraA1 | 11/18/04
They know how to penetrate the market  nucrash | 11/18/04
AOL with Mozilla  just-me_z | 11/18/04
Has no one seen the adds AOL is running.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/18/04
Adds  donald17 | 11/18/04
Mozilla provides a very robust platform  George Mitchell | 11/17/04
What is AOL's strategy..............???  rshimizu12@... | 11/17/04
Why Don't Hackers Pick On AOL?  coffeenite | 11/18/04
Netscape 7.2  NickMets7 | 11/20/04
Lured toward uniformity  saphil@... | 12/01/04
correction  sir_cheats_a_lot | 12/01/04

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