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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. Bah by Dumb+Nig · · Score: 0, Troll

    Money shifted from one giant corp to another, big deal. How will this help their customers?

  2. Antitrust lawsuit = Aol bilking some greenbacks by zymano · · Score: 0, Troll
    What is this nonsense ? And then throw on top of that a deal to include monopolyshits browser with AOL ??

    Aol should include moz/firebird . Pure bullshit if you ask me

    If anyone is wondering if there is real justice by our government out there , look at this little deal by these two joker/fraud companies.

    Aol is garbage and Steve Case is a dumbfuck.

    The gov should have banned all Microshit software from being included with new puter purchases. They didn't because of BUSH .

  3. Re:Is the browser war over? by ILuvUAmiga · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh please, IE is packed to the brim with cool technologies, please don't talk such crap.

    So it doesn't have tabbed browsing? Awww, boohoo, look- compared to the sheer overbloat that is Mozilla IE is clean, fast, efficient and does everything it does do cleanly and nicely.

    At the end of the day a broswer shows fucking web pages, does it really MATTER who owns it? I don't really give a shit whether it says IE/Opera/Mozilla/Whatever in the about box as long as I can surf the net. You open source nutters really do get touchy about such things dont you, and have the cheek to call Mr. Gates competitive! Christ, if its not Mozilla wanting to be the top browser you want that dogs asshole of an OS to beat Windows!

    Strangely (more stupid me) I keep downloading Mozilla, keep checking out Linux from time to time and yes things do progress ever so slightly, but on the whole both are shit and thats exactly the reason they won't be denting the MS monopoly anytime soon. When they are better then yes, fine, maybe people will use them, until then, why not shut up whining and get on with making some competitive products?

  4. Re:Is the browser war over? by Unregistered · · Score: 0, Troll

    awww... somnebody can't figure out mandrake.