What is it with all of these.com executives entering the private space industry? First Bezos and now this. Do they think that since they got lucky with their investments in the web, they now are obligated to spend millions in another obscure industry? If I had the type of money these guys have, there's no way I'd waste it on something as risky and untested as private space travel.
I say that because it seems to me that NB will always be behind Firefox technically - this newest release just incorporates FFX 1.0, which ahs been out since November. Of course, you can expect the speed of upgrades to be quicker when NB is actually released and not in a closed test, but the point remains.
Also, one of the best things about FFX imho is that if I want to see the weather in the browser or be able to view pages in IE I can, but if I don't want those features I don't have to have them. That will be lost with NB, since they're just packaging everything together.
This looks a lot like the iPod+HP strategy to me. Netscape is still a fairly well-known brand, and many users will probably trust a browser from them more than they would from a company they know nothing about (Mozilla). Despite the fact that the Netscape Browser is inferior to Firefox, it's still easily better than IE and will help reach the goal of reducing malicious programs that spawn through Microsoft's security holes.
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2^69 and 2^80 are exponential...
What is it with all of these .com executives entering the private space industry? First Bezos and now this. Do they think that since they got lucky with their investments in the web, they now are obligated to spend millions in another obscure industry? If I had the type of money these guys have, there's no way I'd waste it on something as risky and untested as private space travel.
I say that because it seems to me that NB will always be behind Firefox technically - this newest release just incorporates FFX 1.0, which ahs been out since November. Of course, you can expect the speed of upgrades to be quicker when NB is actually released and not in a closed test, but the point remains. Also, one of the best things about FFX imho is that if I want to see the weather in the browser or be able to view pages in IE I can, but if I don't want those features I don't have to have them. That will be lost with NB, since they're just packaging everything together.
Also pretty funny that IE is on the quick-launch bar. That user must not have much confidence in the browser. :)
This looks a lot like the iPod+HP strategy to me. Netscape is still a fairly well-known brand, and many users will probably trust a browser from them more than they would from a company they know nothing about (Mozilla). Despite the fact that the Netscape Browser is inferior to Firefox, it's still easily better than IE and will help reach the goal of reducing malicious programs that spawn through Microsoft's security holes.