Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet biz. Last week At Home picked up Excite; today Yahoo throws free home page service GeoCities into its shopping basket. The latest deal makes Yahoo much bigger, second only in reach to the mighty America Online. Quite a feat if you consider that no one's browser comes preloaded with a Yahoo home page. And what a validation for GeoCities, a company that seemed absurd as recently as last year -- will anyone ever make money on free web sites...
...information about the column's topic. Invariably, I get e-mail from readers saying something like: "I tried to look up timedigital.com but I got thousands of hits. Which one is your page?" Aha! I snort. Here's a person who is still confused about the difference between a browser and a search engine! (Don't be ashamed. I have an editor who is also befuddled on this point.) Think of a browser as the 3-D glasses your computer needs to "see" things on the Web. When you launch the program and type in an address, you can visit...
...battleground that matters--the federal courthouse--Microsoft is still doing dismally. Take its central assertion that Internet Explorer is not a separate application, but an integral part of the Windows operating system. A government expert pointed out last week that Microsoft Press's computer dictionary defines a Web browser (like Explorer) as an application...
Ever since the AOL-Netscape merger was announced last month, Microsoft has claimed that it would radically alter the balance of the browser wars because Netscape would suddenly have preferential access to AOL's immense subscriber base. But Justice prosecutor David Boies has countered that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will...
...synch with its borrowing style, Microsoft adopted the Smart Browsing concept for its own 5.0 browser, evening the score on that point. It one-upped Netscape, though, by vastly improving the way the browser handles search, bookmarking and history. Both browsers work equally well in Windows, by the way. And both include free mail programs: Netscape comes with Messenger and Microsoft gives away Outlook Express, which has been upgraded. Again, I prefer Microsoft's offering: Outlook looks snappier and offers a great way to handle junk mail. Microsoft's beta, however, is no Ally McBeal: it takes up 15.4 megabytes...