JTK wrote:
> bob wrote:
>
>>JTK wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>The correct answer is about 3 years and 3 months but there was maybe 6
>>>>>months background preparation. A bit of a false start and the
>>>>>concentration of the mail/news team on Communicator 4.5 produced a loss
>>>>>of 9 months to one year depending on how you look at it.
>>>>>
>>>>3 years, 3 months to create a browser? Wow.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Nonono Marc, to create a *platform*, Mozilla's a *platform*. Just like
>>>that wildly successful coffee-named *platform* that nobody remembers.
>>>
>>What do you mean 'A Platform'? Thats pretty vague. It's a platform for what?
>>
>
> Well, far as I can tell, for using up as much RAM as possible while
> providing the least amount of usability. But the Maozilla Politburo
> will tell you it's gonna someday maybe next year if all goes well and
> the sun doesn't go behind a cloud somehow "kill Micro$oft" because Linux
> finally has a web browser. Yeah, I don't get it either.
>
Since Mozilla's framework is the basis for a very, very expensive (a few
hundred $$$) software and that's selling very well, I fail to see your
point. Linux has had a webbrowser.
Mozilla is a weird devil. It's a web browser. The way that it is
designed though, the browser is really on a plugin of sorts. You could
make a word processor out of it, an IDE for multiple programming
languages, you could make mail and news clients, web page software, just
about anything.
Microsoft won't be killed. Microsoft will simply end up with 20% of the
browser share and keep it's 80% of the OS market
