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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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft To Linux: 'Bring It On'
Talkback Today, it has better browsers than IE, excellent media players, a free and quite nice office suite, two easy-to-use and full featured desktop environments, and so on. Back in 1998, GNU/Linux did not even have a decent web browser.
[April 23, 2004, 17:28]
Free And Open Source Software For Translators
White Papers With a range of free and open source translation memory suites, web browsers and office software to choose from, FOSS is an attractive option for freelancers and agencies alike. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is gaining popularity in the...
[November 28, 2006, 23:00]
Firefox Loses Market Share
Talkback big problems with last few updated firefox browsers is the reason people went back to internet explorer, i found my free ram xp memory freeing tool kept going wrong because of firefoxs browsers and also my roboform form filler on top of which i...
[August 16, 2005, 14:41]
Web-Based Delivery Of Courseware, Tutorials And Assessment With WebOL
White Papers This reflects its great reach, its presence in educational institutions and the availability of free browsers. Computer-based assessments (CBA) can be formative or summative. This paper will focus on formative assessments and courseware but some of...
[April 13, 2005, 0:00]
What A Whining Loser Baby
Talkback Grow up, Apple is only giving folks a choice of browsers, not saying that it's 'inseparable from the OS' or any such bald-faced lie as Microsoft pulled (and got away totally free). Plus, unlike I.E. Safari is completely standards based and FAST.
[March 25, 2008, 14:44]
"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]
Windows AntiSpyware Will Be Free
Talkback What will be the real cost, will it be charging for new definitions and updates or will it only be compatible with Internet browsers made by MS like IE and MSN Explorer? Theres no such thing as a free lunch.
[February 16, 2005, 21:42]
Blinkx Beat Screensaver
Downloads No longer do you have to open multiple Web browsers only to sift through a myriad of sites. blinkx beat is a free download that plays breaking news, entertainment, business and sports videos in full-screen right on your desktop.
[April 3, 2008, 3:16]
Firefox Secrets
White Papers Conceived with a focus on usability, and offering a trim but functional user interface, Firefox was intended as a viable alternative to older Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, and has succeeded in this goal.
[March 9, 2006, 23:00]
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]
