Netscape these days survives as a desolate outpost in the vast AOL Time Warner empire, something akin to banishment to Irkutsk. But what if history had a different twist?
E-mail and browsing the Web are certainly the most popular Internet applications. But everyone who has Internet access, utilizes search engines, and corresponds via e-mail also knows about the downfalls of this technology. Looking for seemingly harmless keywords in search-engine queries can return a surprising list of links. Subscribing to newsgroups or entering your e-mail address in questionnaires can result in a spamming flood of responses that you neither asked for nor wanted.
Five years ago this week, Bill Gates passed the CEO baton to Steve Ballmer.
Although he's highly critical of the remedies proposed by nine states and the District of Columbia in his company's antitrust trial, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has acknowledged that some of the restrictions would have prevented the company from engaging in behaviour that an earlier court deemed illegal.
Despite security concerns an increaseing number of sites are turning to Microsoft's IIS.
Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.
Although Microsoft claims to finally be paying attention to security as an important issue for the masses, there are some doubts about whether IE6, which is built into XP, has really improved security in any meaningful way.
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