Word: microsoft
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...beginning there was one Web browser. It was called Mosaic, and if you didn't like it you could go back to watching Murphy Brown, or whatever it was we did before we had the Web. Then Microsoft started giving away Internet Explorer, Mosaic turned into Netscape, and suddenly life was complicated. It was like Coke vs. Pepsi, or Mets vs. Yankees: everybody had to choose. When Microsoft won the browser wars, by hook or by crook (the jury is still out on that), life got simple again...
...suggest ideas, fix bugs and generally stress-test the bejeezus out of Mozilla. This is a technique called "open source"; big corporations rarely use it because it involves giving other people free access to the innards--or source code--of your software. But given AOL's chilly relationship with Microsoft, that seemed a small price to pay for an alternative to Internet Explorer...
...found 113 bugs today alone, and as Jack Palance would say, the day ain't over yet. But even if Mozilla were a terrible browser, it would be important just for being different. Right now 90% of the Web surfers in the world use Internet Explorer. Do you trust Microsoft to control how everybody on earth sees the Internet? For that matter, would you trust AOL or any other company? On the Internet, diversity is healthy. Sometimes a little complication can be a good thing...
...that evidence - with some nice geopolitical uncertainty thrown in for good measure - Wall Street is having trouble getting out bed in the morning. After the University of Michigan took the air out of the GDP number, the Dow and NASDAQ started to sag under IBM and Microsoft and not a few other heavywieghts, and after a last trading hour of total dejection, the Dow had had its worst week since September and was back under five digits at 9,910. The NASDAQ sank 49 to 1,663. Only bonds celebrated, and on the postgame shows, the capitulation-watch was back...
Assuming you want your free iPod extras to be a little more legal, here's a handy shopping list. First, go to www.apple.com/ipod and make sure you have version 1.1 of the iPod software. This will let you export your address book from programs like Palm Desktop and Microsoft Entourage. Check out iPoding.com or iPodhacks.com for other address-book formats. Then go to VersionTracker.com and search for iPod (specify Mac OS 9 or OS X) to see which of the following goodies are available for your machine...