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to: John Cuccia
from: Rich
date: 2003-02-06 20:37:40
subject: Re: Why IE became popular

From: "Rich" 

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   OEMs would preinstall Netscape on Windows.  Some may still.  It may =
be included with the AOL client with I see installed on every consumer =
machine I see in stores.

Rich

  "John Cuccia"  wrote in message =
news:23b64vgtj7vsvnbrf9ekdrketl7q73bkbu{at}4ax.com...
  On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:06:12 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

  >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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Rich
 

  "John Cuccia" <jcuccia{at}bigfoot.com>">mailto:jcuccia{at}bigfoot.com">jcuccia{at}bigfoot.com>
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  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:06:12 -0500, "Geo." <georger{at}nls.net>">mailto:georger{at}nls.net">georger{at}nls.net> =
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