7/12    In the news...
        "Continuing security problems have eroded Internet Explorer's
        popularity; the market share for Explorer has dropped by more than a
        percentage point from 95.48 percent to 94.42 percent..."
        Gee that's gotta hurt! Poor MS.
        \_ Although if you read a report that said non IE browsers have gained
           20 percent marketshare you'd be pretty impressed.
        \_ While it's a tiny change in IE market share it does represent rather
           strong growth in Moz and Firefox.  You can't expect them to go from
           3 to 30% in one quarter, can you?
           \_ Didn't IE grow enormously fast in the early days?  I remember
              back in the days of Netscape 2,  IE was comparatively fast
              and stable and people downloaded it in droves.
              \_ IE3 sucked so much ass. I thought IE4>NS4, but it was debatable.
              \_ I don't remember that at all. During the days of NS2 I think
                 IE was still basically just an extension of Word (Yes, folks
                 IE started out as an embedded HTML renderer in MS Word). I don't
                 think IE became really popular until Win98 when it was bundled
                 (read shackled) into the OS.
             \_ Back in the days of NS 2, IE wasn't on the horizon at all.
                Most users seemed to use IE only for the purpose of downloading
                Netscape.  I considered NS3 to be the best web browser at the
                time but once NS4 and IE4 came out, it became clear that IE is
                better option (on Windows at least, we Unix users were mostly
                stuck with NS4 until Mozilla 0.9.x came out)
             \_ When NS4 and IE4 were both new, they were roughly the same in
                terms of usability, speed, etc.  IE5 came out and NS didn't
                do jack shit and the people voted for the better product.
           \_ I use NS 7.1.  Is it considered a Mozilla browser?
              \_ It is based on a not so recent version of Mozilla, so yes,
                 but you should really switch to Mozilla 1.7.1
                 \_ Possibly off topic, but why is the OSX version of Mozilla
                    so painfully slow?
                    \_ OSX is bloated.
                       \_ Hater. It's also wicked fast on my 15" PB
                    \_ Mozilla is slow on any platform. Try FireFox.
                 \_ Is Mozilla 1.7.1 a stable version?  Also, I found that
                    NS 7.1 on NT is much more memory hungry than NS 4.8.  Is
                    Mozilla 1.7.1 even more memory hungry than NS 7.1?  Thx.
        \_ you guys have forgotten that IE only became popular when it starts
           to be bundled with Windows 95.  Same for MSN Messanger, only start
           to gain market share significantly when it is bundled with XP.