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


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