Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 13-Jan-2005, ScrubsFan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>While I don't really consider Mozilla to be "plain vanilla," I, too, use
>>it over Firefox.  I've tried Firefox and it's perfectly okay, but I use
>>Mozilla because of its other features, such as the mail and news
>>clients.  I prefer the suite concept over the FF + TB concept, so
>>Mozilla is just a better fit for me.
> 
> 
> If you prefer the suite concept over the best of breed concepts, then you're the
> ideal MicroSoft customer.

Huh! What's That?? Say that again?

Maybe as it relates to MS Office where they have four separate 
applications bundled in One Package.

But as far as  The Internet goes It was always IE (Internet Explorer for 
web browsing) and Outlook Express for Email and News reading was made 
painfully obtuse. OE fell out of favor, in favor of Entourage which is 
just Planer/Address book with Outlook Express Tacked on for measure.

MS has always been modular. (Though MS if you check has never ever truly 
designed a piece of software originally) All his products started out at 
other companies and was bought from floundering companies for pennies on 
the dollar and then he brought in people to fix bugs and patch.

Netscape was the first to come out with all-in-one. Netscape (versions 
previous to Communicator) came out even before AOL.

Remember now I started when there was no such thing as ISP's (at least 
in Virginia). I started with "WhiteKnight" a Bulletin Board Reader and 
you dialed long distance to get to a USENET Server on a 300 baud modem.

Bill Gates at the time said the Internet was Joke and a waste of time.

I remember the time when I had to pay $40.00 for Netscape 3.0.1.a Gold, 
and we had had top notch phone support.

Then we had email support which was even better. Then Companies got lazy 
and didn't care about supporting their products and we now have Users 
helping users.

Then Gates developed a dislike or hatred for Netscape, and vowed to 
destroy it by giving away Internet Explorer. It took him a while but he 
eventually did.

He tried the same tack with Apple computer. But when his lawyers 
discussed the possibility of MS being broken up into pieces like AT&T 
because he would be running a monopoly He backed off on that, for a 
while. He may try again when he gets a government what can repeal the 
law that prevents monopolys



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