Actually I'd love to be less dependent on the IE browser but it does have 96% market share worldwide and even in the US 88%. I also am on the record as being very prepared to have the same deal with AOL that I have with Microsoft. AOL are not the easiest people to do business with so my offer has so far not been taken up :-(
Incidentally, did you see this [re AOL and CompuServe]? http://www.fff.org/comment/com0203c.asp best Keith -----Original Message----- From: Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:12 PM To: Keith Teare Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RealNames On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Keith Teare wrote: > Answers embedded below. > > XTNS contract was terminated by RealNames. It turned out we could not > support dot delimited Keywords following a technical change that > Microsoft made to the browser. New.Net's plug-in has had more or less no > effect. Even the Yahoo! Plug-in has had no effect and they are much > bigger than new.net. Generally I think plugins don't work too well. It's > what a company does when it has no other plan. Or when you don't want to limit choice by banking on a convicted monopolists continued hold on the browser market: AOL 7.0 tests Netscape browser http://news.com.com/2100-1023-860710.html /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /\ Patrick Greenwell Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/
