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Microsoft and Netscape continue to fight a jihad,with each side making their browser products more powerful and feature-laden. Today's browsers do far more than surf the Web; they contain integrated e-mail and news clients, push technologies like Active Desktop and Netcaster and include real-time audio conferencing capabilities...
...Washington to order that Internet Explorer be extracted -- which, after this January's unbundling debacle, would not be entirely unexpected. What should worry Bill Gates is that Klein appears to have got hold of a juicy Microsoft memo with such impolitic quotes as: "We should have absolutely dominant browser share in the corporate space." Did somebody say monopoly...
...Bottom of the class: Lycos, which is barely scratching the surface with coverage of about nine million web pages. Best browser award goes to HotBot, which has managed to catalog a third of the web, or around 100 million pages. But as Lawrence and Giles say, none of the engines match up to the searching power you get by using any two or three of them in conjunction. With the Internet set to hit a staggering 3 billion pages by the next century, it?s only going to become more true: If you want to become a better surfer...
Then the giant awoke. Fast-forward to late 1996, when Microsoft launched the third revision of its Internet Explorer: it was finally usable. Linked to Windows and bundled with virtually every PC sold, it soon became unavoidable. Netscape's browser revenues went into free fall. It looked as if the company was doomed...
Zawinski and his co-workers had another idea: Don't give away just the Netscape browser, give away the source code too. This is like Coca-Cola's giving away free six-packs and the secret recipe as well, so you can make Coke at home. Here's the reasoning: Microsoft is so much bigger, and can throw so many programmers at any problem, that Netscape's only chance is to harness the talents of the thousands of hackers on the Net who might be willing to improve on the program if they had a stake in it. "I wouldn...