[thelist] IE update

Liam Delahunty ldelahunty at britstream.com
Wed Oct 8 08:11:13 CDT 2003


Peter-Paul Koch Sent: 08 October 2003 13:42

>>> I do believe there is another browser called mozilla.
>>
>>And one called opera and safari (if you are fortunate enough to use macs).
>
>Which is exactly the point: Microsoft is actually inviting end users to
>switch browsers if they'd incorporate this new alert. I can't understand
the
>reasoning behind this.

It's simple  - they lost a suit on a patents claim to pluggins in browsers
and prefer not to pay $521 million.

http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5063444.html?tag=nl

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1233859,00.asp

kr,
Liam



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