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Browser Wars II: CompuServe Strikes Back

Posted by timothy on from the lizards-are-crawling-everywhere dept.

securitas writes "Today CompuServe (an AOL subsidiary) launched CompuServe 7.0 with Netscape as the underlying browser. CompuServe started testing Komodo, a Gecko-based client, last year, and is now experimenting with Gecko-based AOL clients. CompuServe's 3 million-member user base is seen as a testbed before turning AOL's 34 million members into Netscape users later this year." Update: 04/16 20:54 GMT by T : Also an interesting story at CNN on the upcoming Mozilla 1.0. RC1 is very nice, as have been most recent builds.

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  1. Compuserve goes way back by qurob · · Score: 2, Funny


    I'm 23675.3598@compuserve.com!

    1. Re:Compuserve goes way back by NMerriam · · Score: 3, Funny

      72202,142

      I sadly gave it up a few years ago, when I realized that good, active, moderated, insightful forums were dead...

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  2. In related news. by aengblom · · Score: 2, Funny

    In related news. Prodigy chooses Lynx to form the foundation of it's internet browser. Using Lynx as a client is now in the works

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    So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
  3. From the office of the president by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me, Steve Case, thank you on behalf of all the shareholders of AOL/Time Warner for giving us all your work for free so that we can make a hell of a lot of money and stop paying Microsoft.

    As a token of my appreciation, I have purchased a new yacht where I have hung a fine wooden plaque commemorating the occasion. Rest assured that I have it hanging in a very prominent place.

    No, no; no need to thank me. The 10s of millions of dollars of free labor that I received are thanks enough.

  4. Why now? by ShawnDoc · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose this is just a test, but why force 3 million users to use a piece of software that is really not yet ready for prime time. I can't help but think AOL/TW is jumping the gun, the version 1RC isn't even out yet. Couldn't they have just waited a couple more months until the 1.0 final release is out and incorporated that into Compuserve?

    I just worry that by forcing conversion a few weeks/months early they will put off a lot of people then they would have had they released something based on final code.

    1. Re:Why now? by ADRA · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hello, we are talking about 3 Million people! Can't anyone else see that this is just a shoot load of beta testers? Compuserve will probably get zounds of customer feedback saying this or that is broken, and by knowing what real users need, the dev teams can fix the bugs really need to be.

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  5. New feature! by Pituritus+Ani · · Score: 2, Funny
    You'll be able to go to web pages hosted by Compuserve using convenient, mnemonic names. For example, you'd type "GO CIS-175" in the address bar to change your password. For the LDOS Forum, you'd type "GO LDOS". For Weather, you'd type "GO WEATHER".

    As an enhancement, there'll be a Java applet with a "!" prompt. For an additional fee, you can type "GO PRO" in the address bar. Doing so will launch a PDP-10 emulator with a full suite of development tools, along with that user-friendly editor, TECO.

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  6. Mozilla: the coolest project by Cally · · Score: 2, Funny

    I submit that Mozilla is the coolest Free software project running today! I've been using it since the first naked Gecko builds were available - almost nothing in the way of chrome, just a raw HTML rendering widget (and not a great one, to start with!) and watched it grow and mature in the last three or four (can it really be FOUR years Well I guess it surely can) years... the satisfaction I feel now that it's about to take over the world and crush the IE like a bug is amplified by remembered all those sad Slashdot flamers... "it's sooo bloaaatttteddd!!" they winged, "oooh, it's not as good as Internet Explorer", "I just want a browwwwwwser" they whined... HA! Well SCREW YOU, chaps, I was right and you were wrong. BAAAAhahahahaaha!

    (Cally wanders away to find his medication...)

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  7. True dat! by ebonic+plague · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they still usin Compuserve, they probably ain't interested in upgrades.

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  8. Naming Issues by user32.ExitWindowsEx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose that it should technically be Browser Wars VI: Netscape Strikes Back, but for all you Mozilla lovers out there, it could arguably be Broswer Wars II: Attack of the (Mozilla) Clones.

    I know I'm stretching the bounds of humor.

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  9. Re:I did, until just a few weeks ago by mech9t8 · · Score: 3, Funny
    they still haven't deleted my old CS webpage.

    I quite CompuServe EIGHT YEARS ago, and they still haven't deleted my old CS webpage. Hell of a tight ship they run there. ;)

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  10. Re:Quick Poll: by JordanH · · Score: 2, Funny
    • i'm 1 that uses Moz on linux. anyone else? a do-it yourself poll?

    Oh! I love Slashdot polls.

    I use CowboyNeal.

  11. Re:Comical. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Yeah, I'm sure that all those paying subscribers can't wait to have their services disrupted so that they can be guinea pigs for AOL.

    Hey, a lot of people paid for Windows 95 didn't they? Now there's beta software if I've ever seen it...