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HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bring-back-the-browser-wars dept.

TJ Parisi writes "News.com is reporting that HP / Compaq will begin to install all PCs sold in the US and Canada with Netscape. Users will be prompted with the option to set either Netscape or IE as the default browser." From the article: "The agreement, which the companies are set to announce Monday, is the first browser distribution deal with a major PC maker since the end of the browser wars in the 1990s, according to Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary."

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  1. First. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Post.

  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. I know why. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because Opera sucks.

  4. Oh oh... by phaetonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In soviet russia, Netscape installs you!