From: Ellen K. 

We had Netscape as the "official" browser at Kaiser, but a lot of
the time I would use IE because Netscape would hang.

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:54:46 -0600, John Cuccia 
wrote in message :

>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:06:12 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>>news:sho54v89ng11gph49bfd09dd6ll2bentp1{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> That was then, however.  This is now, and now the story is that
>>> customers switched to IE, not because it was right there in front of
>>> them when their computers booted, but because it was better than
>>> Netscape.
>>>
>>> You have to do a better job of keeping up with the party line.
>>
>>So why do people use AIM when Messenger is right there in front of them?
>
>Since I don't know much about IM at all, and don't have any IM clients
>installed here,  I can only guess that it's because they either
>started as, or still are, AOL users, and AIM was right there in front
>of them so they got comfortable with it and learned how to use it?
>
>I think IM clients and browsers are a lot alike in that there isn't
>(or wasn't) that much to differentiate between different brands, so
>people use what's most easily available.
>
>>I've always had both IE and NN icons on my desktop right in front of me,
>>with the exception of skipping IE4 I've always chosen IE over NN.
>
>That's odd, I haven't seen a Netscape icon on my desktop since I ran
>OS/2.  As I recall, none of NT 3.51, NT4, or W2K installs Netscape.
>Where does your Netscape come from?

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4