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Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-to-terms dept.

aoteoroa writes "Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AOL on behalf of its subsidiary Netscape last year, the companies said Thursday. At first blush the deal looks good, but I can't help but wonder how a deal that ties AOL to IE again will negatively impact my favorite web browser." Here's a news.com story that also covers it. Is the browser war over? If so, it sure was anticlimactic.

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  1. Slashdot = winsupersite? by thdexter · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Jesus Christ, why does slashdot cover microsoft more than they cover BSD and Linux combined? Feels like I'm at a Godamn Windows rumor mill. Meanwhile, my submission on University of Idaho's cloning of a donkey is rejected.

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  2. Re:death of Netscape by skt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I still like Netscape 7 for businesses to use inside of their corporations for email and a web browser. There are still many businesses that are using Netscape 4.. and Netscape 7 looks like the best upgrade path. While I have been using mozilla since the M13 days.. I would never consider mozilla as a replacement for NS4 on our desktops. Netscape 7 will undergo more testing, and has a more stable user interface than mozilla. Netscape 7 is also more likely than mozilla to have vendor support for web-based applications. Name recognition is also a factor in my mind.. from the point of view of the users, they will eventually get Netscape 4 upgrade to 7.. rather than Netscape 4 to mozilla.

    As for the bloat and advertising, that was removed one morning with the CCK and some configuration hacking. With java, the minimal version was about 10MB less than Netscape 7.02. The only disadvantage that I can think of is that Netscape 7 will not pick up the latest and greatest features of mozilla, but only power users and care about the latest features of mozilla and so I don't see this as a big problem.

  3. Re:Not over... by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Well how about you fix that instead of using a lame example as proof that IE is not a good browser? Did you also configure all the mime types and plugins so she can view pages the same way as in IE? Other than popups, did you solve any other problems she might have had, or did you just make her life more difficult? The idea of a popup killer for IE didn't enter into the equation, eh?

    I have nothing against Mozilla at all, in fact I think it's a great browser. Firebird is excellent and fast. But frankly, coming in here and telling your little offtopic story so the peanut gallery can cry out in delight is kind of lame.