I know that, you know that, but my mom sure doesn't know that, and the
majority of todays Internet users don't know that.
The thing to remember, Netscape and IE aren't the Internet, they are
clients. Windows 95 gave windows users Dial up networking and plug and
play. This let them buy a modem and easily install it, and easily connect
to an isp. Then they could get Mosaic or Netscape.
What it brought was an easy to use and configure system to connect. People
didn't have to understand TCP/IP or PPP all they had to do was click the
wizard and they were on the Internet. That is what MS did for the Internet
and the Computer industry
I still use Netscape, and I still use Eudora, why, security, I still
haven't send a major bug that has directly effected both of these.
At 12:10 PM 9/26/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>How do you work that out??
>
>Netscape's browser was around long before IE? Windows was simply a vessel.
>In fact the first dial up tools we used for connecting our modems to the
>Internet didn't even come from MS. But like so many times from MS, they take
>someone elses ideas and innovations, and incorporate them into their OS, and
>in a few cases putting the original company out of business.
>
>If anything... the Internet put MS in more homes!! The Internet has been
>around a lot longer than MS have... it just needed the 'killer' app to pull
>it into the foreground... and that was Netscape, not a MS product.
>
>I disagree they were 'responsible' for putting the Internet in our homes...
>their dominance in the market, and the constant bundling of applications has
>enabled more people to be able to access the Internet... I don't think
>'responsible' is the right word. They weren't even going to worry about the
>passing fad... what a backflip that turned out to be!!!!
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:35, you wrote:
> > They were responsible for putting the Internet in the homes, which created
> > a large number of jobs.
> >
> > At 07:43 AM 9/26/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> > > > Look at all the good they have done.
> > >
> > >And what would that be? You listed all the things that they are already
> > >noted before?
> > >
> > >What good have they done? And please don't say Windows... because that
> > > idea just came from somewhere else!!! It was those said 'shady business
> > > practices' that got them where they are today... and have put so many
> > > other companies out of business, or stopped them being able to compete.
> >
> >
>
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