From: John Cuccia 

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?

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