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Friday, May 30, 2003
The Bill and Dick Show.
Doesn't it give you just a warm, fuzzy feeling that Microsoft and AOL
Time Warner are going into business together? This Washington
Post analysis by David
Vise is particularly good
on how Microsoft may emerge as the principal engine by which AOL Time
Warner distributes its massive quantities of content.
The Wall Street Journal goes
hard on the angle that this may be the
end of Netscape, the
software company that AOL acquired a few years ago for $10 billion to
compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape Navigator was
essentially the original Web browser -- an immediate descendent of
Mosaic -- but has long since fallen behind Explorer, helped along by
that massive distribution network known as Windows.
Of course, it was Microsoft's
attempts to crush Netscape that made it the subject of an endless,
celebrated antitrust case. But the buzz has long since departed
Netscape. Indeed, the code was given away a long time ago. These
days, the principal innovations to Navigator are made by the
open-source techies at Mozilla
-- which is definitely worth checking out.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
