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Old Feb 12th, 2008, 12:44
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Re: Microsoft bid for Yahoo good or bad

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Originally Posted by temi View Post
Well, we will see how the SE war unfolds. Don't quite agree with you completely on how Netscape lost the war, if AOL who subsequently bought Netscape has so much faith in it, why did they continue to bundle IE with AOL software? If they changed from IE to their own product (Netscape) they would have put Netscape on millions of desktop overnight.
Yes, but when AOL / NetScape announced they were no longer supporting the Netscape browser they recommended FireFox...

AOL bundled IE with their package as they had a licence agreement with MS, I believe this agreement was in place before they purchased NetScape in 98/99.
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