AP reports on renewed "Browser War"

An anonymous reader writes "CNN and others are reporting an Associated Press story on "the revived browser war" with Mozilla paired against Microsoft. It seems the 1.0 release is creating some waves out there. " Considering most people consider the war long since over, I can't imagine this mattering much.

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Re:War is over unless AOL changes default

[Apreche]

95% of surfers use IE because 95% of surfers are AOLers. Remember the number 1 ISP is AOL. IE is only the number one browser because AOL counts as IE. If AOL switches to Mozilla, then the #1 browser becomes Mozilla. I'm at a technical college with lots of computer nerds, and lots of non-nerds too. Since we have a LAN you can get a good idea about what browsers people use without AOL getting in the way. WRONG. Most of the non-nerds USE AOL. That's right, given for free the best ISP in the world, "stupid" people just put AOL over it, because they don't know any better. Other than that it's pretty much a 3 way tie between Mozilla, Netscape Communicator, and IE. There are actually quite a few funky opera users out there.

I personally use IE for most browsing, I have win2k and IE is fast, and it works. I disliked Mozilla because the last time I used it it was very slow. I recently installed 1.0, and am very pleased. Now I use both browsers. IE for my daily site roundup and Mozilla for browsing (pop-up protection is great). My roomate a rabid IE fan even installed Mozilla, he also only uses it when he needs to block pop-ups.

So there is no browser war. AOL just decides which browser is the standard.

And Konqueror is kool too.