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Grasping for straws and gasping for air

Just received in my email:

Dear Netscape Member,

In this issue:

- Browsing Just Gets Better
Download the next generation browser and discover why experts praise the quality and performance of Netscape 7.1. Popup controls aren't enough to convince you? Then how about spam filters and access to over 175 music channels from Radio@Netscape? It's easier than ever to upgrade and keep your favorites and settings. Enjoy lots of new features and plug-ins. Best of all...it's free.

There was more.

Popup controls would be great for surfing them porn sites, huh? I don't do that, but I am tired of every newspaper site doing the same. However, I thought Netscape was dead? What up with that? Oh:

Netscape
First up is some Netscape 7.x news. Netscape 7.0 and 7.01 have had a total of over 14 million downloads. To quote an AOL exec, this fact is "impressive compared to AOL 8's 10 million downloads which were backed by AOL's marketing muscle."

Based on the Mozilla 1.4 trunk, the next release of Netscape may be the last major release for the foreseeable future. The current plan for the browser is "Probably focused on maintenance releases." [link]

Looks like I was behind the 8-ball on this and Netscape took their sweet time letting me know about the new update. Oh well, not sure when was the last time I used Netscape anyway. I used to be a die-hard Netscape user until I found that IE was winning the cross-platform battles more and more, so just switched. Yeah, I still think MS software is a bunch of crap, but what the hey, everyone seems so wholly dependent upon their crap you can't keep from letting it swallow you up whole.

Posted by Tiger at August 14, 2003 10:59 PM