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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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