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Netscape Back In Browser Wars With Double Barrage
News Netscape will begin a fresh attack on Microsoft in the Web browser war this week. To that end, Netscape will begin a new round of advertising over the rest of the year, aimed at hitting back at what it sees as Microsoft marketing smoke and mirrors...
[August 5, 1997, 12:21]
Firefox Bites Back
Leader Six years ago, Microsoft won the browser wars against Netscape -- the distant forefather of Firefox -- not because Internet Explorer was a better browser, but by the simple expedient of giving it away with every copy of Windows.
[September 21, 2004, 13:05]
AOL Turns Up The Heat In Browser Wars
News America Online has dropped Internet Explorer from a test version of its software for Mac OS X, the latest sign that the Internet giant wants a rematch in the browser wars with Microsoft. Analysts downplayed the significance of the Netscape switch...
[May 17, 2002, 8:32]
Q&A: Spyglass's Harris-Evans On Putting The Web Everywhere
News In reality we were the company that began the browser wars by licensing our engine to Microsoft [for Internet Explorer]. Often, we're presented as the company that lost out in the browser wars and are now trying something different but people are...
[September 17, 1997, 17:14]
AOL Enters Browser Wars
News The browser wars of the late 1990s that pitted Microsoft against Netscape have long concluded, leaving IE as the undisputed heavyweight champion. Netscape founder Marc Andreessen last week said that the rise of these new software products may...
[October 11, 2004, 10:40]
MS Takes Aim At RealNetworks... Again
News Bundling, browser wars revisited Media Player's numbers stand to get a boost with the release of Windows Millennium Edition, due out in September, since the player will be bundled with the operating system.
[July 18, 2000, 10:00]
Super Techies: Brendan Eich
News Eich discusses his early work at Netscape creating the JavaScript programming language, battling Microsoft in the browser wars and his current role at Mozilla, overseeing new technology enhancements for the company's flagship Firefox browser.
[January 23, 2008, 10:49]
Web Developers Wary Of AOL Switch
News America Online may be too late to launch a full-scale offensive in the browser wars, but it might be able to broker a lasting peace. AOL recently disclosed that it is testing a replacement to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which it has...
[March 27, 2002, 12:31]
Netscape, Not IE, Put On New CompuServe
News America Online on Tuesday fired the first shot in what may signal the rekindling of the Web browser wars against Microsoft. CompuServe, AOL's other online service, previously used Microsoft's Internet Explorer as its default browser, and AOL itself...
[April 16, 2002, 17:22]
Mozilla Takes On Microsoft.Net
News Netscape's army of open-source programmers may not have turned the tide in the browser wars, but that hasn't stopped some followers from moving on to the next front in the battle for control of the Internet.
[February 6, 2001, 7:48]
Netscape Hits Microsoft With Lawsuit
News The lawsuit is based on previous court findings that Microsoft's business practices amid the infamous browser wars of the 1990s violated two sections of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. Netscape Communications, a division of AOL Time Warner, filed...
[January 23, 2002, 8:44]
IE4 'summer' Launch Slips Into Autumn
News The launch of IE 4.0 will herald the next battle in the browser wars, with Microsoft hoping to close the gap on Netscape by persuading Net users to switch to their browser to benefit from a raft of new technologies.
[July 8, 1997, 12:28]
IE Stagnation Spells Trouble For All Concerned
News Such plans may signal a turning point in the browser wars, indicating that the open-source development movement is succeeding in its efforts to thwart Microsoft's turning the Web into a one-browser shop.
[October 8, 2004, 10:35]
The Remedy That Wasn't Such A Bitter Pill
News One telling example lies in the now-ancient history of the browser wars. In mid-1998, when the Clinton administration filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft, browser share for Netscape Navigator hovered around a hefty 40 percent of the market...
[March 24, 2004, 15:45]
Next IE Will Ship Before Longhorn
News In a survey conducted late last year, Firefox nudged IE below the 90 percent mark for the first time since the height of the browser wars in the 1990s. Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company will ship...
[February 16, 2005, 7:55]
AOL Unveils Mozilla-based Netscape 7.0
News Browser wars' is a catchy term but not necessarily apropos," said AOL spokesman Marty Gordon. America Online's Netscape subsidiary on Wednesday launched a preview of its newest Web browser, another sign of AOL's reinvigorated campaign to win...
[May 22, 2002, 16:38]
Is Microsoft Ripping Off Its Beta Testers?
News What a contrast to the browser wars. Microsoft has browser competitors, so it gives its Internet Explorer away for free. That's how many computer users must feel these days since Microsoft invited 100,000 home users to preview Win98.
[March 23, 1998, 16:22]
Browser Wars: Episode II
News The browser wars are back, it seems. Microsoft says it is leaving its options open where Windows 2000 is concerned, but industry observers say a release is unlikely, leaving an application switch as the best option for improving browser security.
[February 28, 2005, 16:10]
Mozilla Pulls Latest Browser Downloads
News The movement was conceived at the height of the browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft in the late-1990s. The list enumerates 101 of Mozilla's features that outdo those of Microsoft's market-leading IE browser, including the ability to...
[December 3, 2002, 7:49]
US Report: Consumers Fume Over AOL-Netscape
News Consultant Chuck Flink suggested that it's the right time for the browser wars to end. ISPs now face the awkward prospect of offering browser software from either Microsoft or AOL, both of which run competing online services, as San Jose attorney...
[November 27, 1998, 9:33]
