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AOL Patent Deal Means Microsoft Now Holds Vestiges of Netscape

Posted by timothy on from the vestiges-are-the-best-part dept.

inode_buddha writes "It's part of the $1 billion AOL patent deal, and it's something that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s. It still makes my mind explode today. Marc Andreesen points out that MS now has a significant chunk of the old Netscape. What are the ramifications for Mozilla?"

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  1. Nothing. by Sigvatr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nothing.

  2. Re:Nothing, if Microsoft is smart. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    With the exception of Opera they are not actually alternate browsers. They are safari with some different buttons at the bottom. Apple does not allow other browsers on the app store.

    Opera gets away with it because of that minifying thing they do where they MITM each page.

  3. MS is competing with Apple and Google, not Mozilla by TheGoodNamesWereGone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    MS isn't terribly worried about the browser wars any more. They're far more afraid of Apple and Google; witness the abortion that is Metro on W8 and their mad rush to 'converge' the desktop with the tablet. Idiocy? Perhaps. It's certainly a slap in the face to every desktop user.