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AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla?
pitabutter writes "Sounds like AOL is joining the list of companies making the internal switch to Linux, taking their default browser choice along with them. Oddly, second article in a short time linking AOL and Red Hat. " As with all things with AOL/Mozilla, I'll actually believe it when the darn thing ships - but the internal switch to Linux is something that I've also heard from people.
AOL for Macs up to ver 4 used MSIE for Mac. I assmue the same for higher, but I do not know this for a fact. Befor IE bacame intergrated with AOL's client AOL did not ship with a Browser. Was very late in support of the web, there was a great deal of speculation that AOL felt threatened by the web because it was simular to what AOL thought was its greatest asset... A GUI. Slowly AOL begain pointing its users to netscape as it became apparent that this web thing wasn't going away. I think there was even a CD or two that provided netscape. (I beleave this was all happening around ver 2 and 3 of the AOL client). Finally AOL fully embraced the web though a Deal with MS. AOL agreed to promote IE by intergrating it with AOL's client and AOL got prime placement on windows descktop. so to recap... 1 MacOS AOL uses IE (or did) 2 AOL promoted Netscape, but never required it. 3 AOL switched to IE because of a marketing deal.
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I have a couple of friends on the tech inside of AOL, its being urged to switch from Microsoft to other operating systems
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