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Netscape to make browsers, source code free
News In complement to making the browsers free, Barksdale vowed to enhance subscriptions and support, but said "OEMs and ISPs will be able to download [client software] with no strings attached". In a dramatic about-turn that responds to the demands of...
[January 22, 1998, 18:24]
Netscape code plan misguided - MS
News Microsoft has dismissed Netscape's decision to make its browsers and source code free of charge saying the strategy is misguided. We have always provided our developer kit free of charge whereas Netscape has had a more confusing strategy in browsers.
[January 23, 1998, 15:34]
Adobe tool compares browsers side by side
News Adobe on Tuesday said it is offering a free preview of its BrowserLab service, which allows web developers to quickly see what their site looks like on a number of browsers. Designers can compare a site in two browsers side by side as well as use...
[June 4, 2009, 9:43]
The 'fastest browser on Earth'?
News Opera also is one of the few remaining Windows browsers that isn't free. Microsoft isn't the only company that has made browsers free commodities. Sutton Designs markets a browser called Enigma for Windows 95/98, which the company claims is fast...
[June 27, 2000, 10:03]
Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims
News We believe the inclusion of the [IE] browser into the operating system benefits consumers, and that consumers and PC manufacturers are already free to choose to use any browsers they wish," said a Microsoft spokesperson.
[December 14, 2007, 11:48]
Opera 8 aims for simpler browsing
News Most other browsers are available for free without advertising, with payment representing a psychological barrier to some people. Opera also thinks you may end up paying for other browsers anyway. The small screen rendering technology included in...
[April 19, 2005, 13:20]
Firefox achieves 100 million downloads
News The number of reported security holes in Firefox continues to grow, and Symantec recently released a hotly contested report claiming that Mozilla browsers saw more reported vulnerabilities than Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the first half of 2005.
[October 20, 2005, 9:45]
Europe to get Windows 7 without browser
News PC manufacturers may choose to install an alternative browser instead of IE8, and has always been the case, they may install multiple browsers if they wish. Computer makers would then have the option to add the browser back in, ship another browser...
[June 12, 2009, 8:40]
Microsoft plays browser games
News Despite the efforts of standards groups such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), of which Microsoft is an active member, many Web sites are still coded to work with IE, rather than the standards that IE and other browsers support.
[June 4, 2003, 14:47]
Opera plans March IPO
News Opera had been distributing browsers for handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others for several months, but until the 6600 deal it was up to the user to download the browser from the Web, or install it from a CD.
[February 9, 2004, 11:55]
iCloud virtual desktop public-beta launched
News One drawback to this approach is that the virtual machine must be ported to new browsers or platforms for them to support iCloud, said Arthursson. Currently only Internet Explorer is supported, but Xcerion is planning support for browsers such as...
[April 9, 2009, 16:23]
Gates gamble pays off for Microsoft
News Kuney tried to show that Microsoft strives to prevent its products from working with so-called middleware -- such as Web browsers -- produced by its competitors. At one point, Kuney introduced a 1998 e-mail, in which Gates described Microsoft's...
[April 23, 2002, 8:14]
Free Opera: Start of something big?
News and HotBot, from within their browsers. As previously reported, Opera Software A/S made its first free browser available for download Wednesday. Now the next issue is whether or not the Oslo, Norway-based software maker will also free its BeOS, Mac...
[December 7, 2000, 10:46]
"Fastest browser on earth" now free for Linux, Mac
News Microsoft and AOL/Netscape offer their browsers for free. But the software maker plans to announce Thursday that it will make free versions of Opera 5.0 for both of these operating systems available later this year.
[February 1, 2001, 7:39]
Netscape pain could mean free Communicator
News We've been working hard to get that part of our business [browsers] down," he said, pointing to the fading influence of browsers in the Netscape product mix. Barksdale once again claimed that Microsoft's aggressive tactics are "illegal and anti...
[January 6, 1998, 10:01]
Microsoft on Trial: Microsoft attacks DoJ case
News Their allegations: That Netscape Communications Corp.knew the company would give away its browser long before Netscape ever shipped its first product, and that Netscape first approached Microsoft to "divide" the market for Internet browsers.
[October 22, 1998, 9:49]
Quotes of the Week, January 19-23
News Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, announcing the decision to make most browsers and source code free. The bulk of the information will be free of charge. "A lot of Microsoft officials came back from Christmas after being chastised by relatives and friends.
[January 23, 1998, 15:27]
Startup promises 'portable portals'
News The free plug-in launches a companion surfing tool that runs along the left side of both the Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers. It's the way browsers should have been built to begin with," added SideTalk's CEO Ilan Shamir.
[October 8, 1999, 9:07]
EC responds to Microsoft's browser move
News It is noted that computer manufacturers would appear to be able to choose to install Internet Explorer — which Microsoft will supply free of charge — another browser or multiple browsers. As for retail sales, which amount to less than five percent...
[June 12, 2009, 9:45]
How the Hotmail 'cookie monster' bites
News Some IE 4.0 users said they were being denied access to their Hotmail accounts because their browsers didn't support cookies, even when the cookie support feature was, in fact, enabled. Microsoft Corp.s "security zones" development in versions 4.0...
[April 12, 1999, 7:42]
