多少人在家使用Netscape瀏覽器?多少非IT人知道Netscape瀏覽器?雖然Netscape被AOL收購了,仍難起死回生,AOL最終決定於明天(2008年1月1日)完全終止Netscape的發展,一代瀏覽器黯然消失,幸好Mozilla有先見之明培育Firefox跟IE抗衡,不然anti-microsoft人士也要被逼屈服。
P.S. AOL也有燈神潛質,收購回來的都一沉不起,另一經典是ICQ -__-
以下節錄Netscape Blog原文
While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.
AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.





