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The Browser Wars Are Back?

Posted by michael on from the can't-keep-a-good-browser-down dept.

jpkunst writes "ZDNet UK reports and PCWorld.com report that, according to Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, whose comments came during a discussion with Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, 'the browser wars are back', thanks to the emerging popularity of products such as Apple's Safari and the open-source Firefox. Andreessen warned that 'competition could compel the company [Microsoft] to use aggressive tactics to protect its Windows operating system monopoly'."

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  1. browsers wars BAH by undoer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    All your browser are belong to us

  2. we should be safe by WormholeFiend · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    as long as Microsoft does not implement a system like the one in the Gynoids in Ghost in the Shell 2, we should be pretty safe from lesser agressive tactics they use to protect their OS.

  3. Re:Huh? Will longhorn become... by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SHORThorn or longTHORN?

    SHORT because they'll likely have to strip out features and modularize windoze like they LIED back around 1994 (when there was demand for them to remove non-task-specific features to lighten the footprint on resources...). They have YET to strip windoze down to be JUST a print server, JUST a file server, JUST a web server, JUST a desktop client, JUST a...

    longTHORN.. because instead of being GORED by their own monopolist practices, they're going to suffer the THORN being their own petard.

    --
    Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
  4. Re:Too late , too little by ikkonoishi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Israel to palistine is more like Microsoft to the Unabomber.

    The Unabomber wanted to destroy all technology.

    Palistines want to kill all Jews.

  5. Re:Huh? by tdemark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I had a lot of money - enough that $1 or $2 million wouldn't mean much - I would hire a small team of developers to take the OpenOffice code and work on it full time for a year. Make it 100% compatible with MS Office (well, maybe no flight sim in Excel), but also make it better and faster.

    Then, I would release it saying "Here is a free replacement for Office that is 100% compatible with Office and also better because X, Y, Z. If you are a company and wish to have support, we have packages that are 1/10th the cost of Microsoft's offering."

    Are you listening, Steve Jobs? Novell? IBM?

    Oh, well, one could hope.

    - Tony