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What Happened to Netcaster?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-have-they-gone? dept.

cotcomsol asks: "I was surfing around a few days ago and ran across a bunch of old hype for Communicator 4, specifically the Netcaster component. I played with it a bit when it was in beta, and haven't heard anything since. Anyone know why they dropped it? "

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  1. A victim of the cold war by Pauly · · Score: 2

    Remember when this was THE defining issue in the 4.0 broswer wars? In a bit of genius, Microsoft steered the press into making the "Channels" versus "Netcaster" the primary comparison between these two products.

    Netscape fell for it and got distracted from maintaining the strengths that IE lagged behind on.

    Ever notice that "Channels" are nary in sight in IE5? Unless you're an ESPN-addicted salesman, it's not likely you've done anything with either of these features except to find out how to end their annoying, bandwidth- sucking ways.

    What happenened to Netcaster? It served it's purpose just like the carrot on the stick.